“Radical academics do not, of course, burn down buildings, at least not since the 1970s. Instead they introduce motions of no confidence and demand resignations of those who offend their sensibilities (while insisting on complete freedom of speech for those with whom they agree — free speech for me but not for thee!).”
- Harvard’s Alan […]
Slate’s Jack Shafer charts the blonding of female TV newscasters in “TV’s Aryan Sisterhood:”
Joanna Pitman estimates in On Blondes that only one in 20 white adult Americans is a genuine blond, yet one in three adult American females has the look. If you do the math, it’s clear that many female newscasters lie about their […]
We already know that San Francisco doesn’t want the battleship Iowa as a waterfront museum (see our posts here, here, and here). To that city, the Iowa represents the military and war, which are by their definition bad things. But when Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval went on Fox’s Hannity & Colmes last week to talk about […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Economists have tackled a question that has dogged heteronormative couples since the advent of indoor plumbing: should the toilet seat be left up or down after use?
Fortunately for us, the world of economics has tools for tackling issues like this and it turns out none is better than game theory.
Using the aptly labeled #1 […]
A good rule of thumb when hiring someone for your business is to exclude people who’ve pissed off your customers in the past.
If only Current TV had remembered that when they brought Al Gore aboard as Chairman.
According to SF Weekly, Gore’s cable channel, San Franciso-based Current TV, is having a hard time getting distribution on […]
Rosenblog shows us how you can get from
1) the website for a Berkeley conference on reparations to black Americans for slavery
to …
2) information on the UC Berkeley Black Graduate Student Association SKI TRIP (!)
in just one click! (click on ‘blog’ on struggle4reparations.com)
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(click on post title, or here, for the rest)According to researchers, physically unattractive teenagers are more likely to grow up to be criminals. In a study that reads like an issue of the Onion, economists found that the long-term consequences of being young and ugly were consistent. Cute guys were uniformly less likely than averages would indicate to have committed crimes such as […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)After reading 8763 Wonderland’s blistering attack on James Frey’s latest endeavor, I almost feel sorry for the guy. As if being castrated by Oprah on national TV wasn’t enough, 8763’s Roger chimes in with this about Frey’s new life as a reviewer for Amazon:
Just when you thought publicly shamed and humiliated monkey-with-a-typewriter James Frey’s fifteen […]
Do you really have to pay income taxes? Of course you do, but somehow there are still people out there peddling the theory that taxes are voluntary or that by filing a “zero return” you won’t have to pay taxes. Evidently, enough gullible people have tried these and other silly arguments that the IRS […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” said the man with a metal nail embedded in his lung from a gardening accident in 1970. Mind you that most people would consider an inch-long sliver of metal in one’s lung to be “broke,” but that’s beside the point. Guy “Bud” Hart decided to leave the […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)The story of Terence Braxton, the Florida middle school gym teacher who allegedly let children bribe him with $1 to skip gym class, is very easy to understand. What’s confusing is that other lame brain gym teachers hadn”t tried it before.
Let’s face it, being a jr. high school teacher must suck. Even worse if […]
Yesterday Independent Sources had almost 6,000 visitors. 5,000 of them came looking for Steve Erhardt “the living Ken doll” who is best known to our readers as the man who willingly received painful butt-implants.
Unfortunately our Google AdSense numbers didn’t scale with the increased activity. Not sure what ads would best be served up to people […]
According to today’s Los Angeles Times, Michael Ovitz was “once a leading Hollywood power broker” but Michael Jackson is still a “pop star.”
Then again, Ovitz has $25m to give to UCLA, while Jackson is rumored to be flirting with bankruptcy … when not flirting with boys.
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(click on post title, or here, for the rest)The legendary Stanford University tree mascot (pictured above) was suspended from duty after UC Berkeley police observed the tree drinking from a flask during a Stanford-Cal basketball.
Erin Lashnits, 23, a fifth-year undergraduate biology student, was given a breath test which showed she had a blood alcohol level of 0.15 percent, nearly twice the legal limit […]
What if a high school wanted to discuss its dropout problem, but no parents came to the meeting?
That’s effectively what happened yesterday at Birmingham High in Van Nuys, subject of a recent Los Angeles Times series on high school dropouts. According to the Times,
… When Principal Marsha Coates announced plans Wednesday evening to strengthen the […]
