Hello my babies. Happy Monday. I hope your weekend was fantastic. Mine was. Warren bought me a beer and then kicked my ass in Scrabble on Sunday afternoon. Saturday I bounced in a bouncy castle like a goshdarn 5-year-old and it was amazing. Onto the links! I highly encourage you to read this entire 1971 … [Read more…]
From the New York Times piece on the recently passed Maya Angelou: “Hallmarks of Ms. Angelou’s prose style included a directness of voice that recalls African-American oral tradition and gives her work the quality of testimony.” Testimony. In the Alabama Southern Baptist churches I grew up in, we gave our testimonies. By that we meant … [Read more…]
On his blog, libertarian bestselling author and Ron Paul homeschooling curriculum writer Tom Woods has written some thoughts about thin and thick libertarianism and how they apply to the Duck Dynasty controversy. If you’ve been living in a cave, the star of reality television show Duck Dynasty said some unfortunate things about gay people and some really … [Read more…]
It appears that American colleges’ speech-censoring chickens have come home to roost, in the form of three dickish white bros. The students filed a racial discrimination complaint after their black, female professor dared try to teach them about structural racism. While no one should support the guys’ desire to remain ignorant about race, some are … [Read more…]
With the clock ticking on the legislative session, President Obama held a Roosevelt Room meeting on immigration reform, even as House Speaker John Boehner dismissed the idea, at least for this year. At issue is the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” bill. It offers many of America’s 11 million undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship while still requiring them … [Read more…]