My brother-in-law, the pastor, occasionally gets a kick out quoting "Biblical scholar" Elaine Pagels to me. He knows that she's got her theology all out of whack, but Pagels and I have a history. You see, in one of my upper-division English courses at Cal Poly, I made a mistake. I unwittingly got a professor […]
The WTA -- the professional women's tennis association -- is complaining because the women still aren't getting paid as much as the men. The WTA Tour, which has lobbied for equal pay for years, expressed disappointment that Wimbledon "continues to promote inequality in pay across the board between men and women." "In the 21st century, […]
The media, and some states' laws, have a decades-old practice of not identifying victims of rape, but are free to publish the names and photos of those accused of rape. The logic behind this policy was to encourage rape victims to discount the stigma associated with the crime and come forward and report it. Hand-in-hand […]
NPR's Juan Williams has an effect on Brit Hume. Last week's revelation that a CIA officer had been fired after apparently leaking information (a charge the individual reportedly denies) on secret CIA prisons in Europe to a Washington Post reporter (leading to a Pulitzer Prize) has provided Democrats with an opportunity to once again demonstrate […]
Greg Mitchell is the editor of Editor & Publisher magazine and he's an evil lefty. Not all lefties are evil, but Mitchell is. Greg Mitchell is the Great Evil Lefty. Down with the Great Evil Lefty. Kill the Great Evil Lefty. Chop off Greg Mitchell's head! Pretty wacky, huh? At this point I'd like to […]
Journalist/blogger/media critic Jay Rosen was on the Hugh Hewitt show last week and he said something that I think is spot-on regarding how the media portrays itself to the public: HH: Let me give you an alternative resolution to this, Jay Rosen. The paper should just admit that their journalists are polemicists who carry their […]
It's very rare that I read self-published books. The main reason is that when you even hear about a self-published book, it's usually because you know the author -- Barnes & Noble and other brick-and-mortar stores just don't have the shelf space to dedicate to books that are more an exercise in ego for the […]
There's another thoughtful article on the local case I mentioned earlier this week about a student who wore an "Homosexuality is Shameful" T-Shirt to school the day after a Gay/Lesbian sponsored "Day of Silence." The piece by Dale Carpenter makes the argument that current law, the Tinker case dealing with Vietnam-era anti-war protests, is bad […]
Yesterday the senior Democrat on the House Ethics Committee, Alan Mollohan of W. Va., resigned from the panel amid controversy over his behavior on House Appropriations Committee. The Wall Street Journal reported two weeks ago that Mollohan steered millions of dollars to nonprofit groups in his district _ with much of the money going to […]
The source for The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning story on the CIA's secret prisons for terrorists in Europe has been fired, and probably will be spending some time in federal prison. According the the New York Times, the traitor is Mary O. McCarthy, a Kerry supporter who was appointed to her position as senior director […]