May 10, 2010
Idiot of the month

The result was predictable. I mentioned last week that a couple of Live Oak High School administrators had removed five students from school for wearing T-shirts featuring the American flag on Cinco de Mayo. Well, the fallout has been predictable. The heightened police presence was due in part to rumors swirling around the school Thursday […]

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May 9, 2010
Idiot of the day

New York Times columnist Charles Blow, last seen complaining that racial diversity on the right is nothing more than a “minstrel show,” has been given access to a computer once again to publish this doozy. Thankfully, you don’t have to read to the end for the punchline. He gets right to the point. Racist. Tea […]

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May 8, 2010
Bring out your hip-waders…or your flip-flops

This is a couple of weeks old, but it’s too good not to bring it to your attention. Melting icebergs causing sea level rise Scientists have discovered that changes in the amount of ice floating in the polar oceans are causing sea levels to rise. The research, published this week in Geophysical Research Letters, is […]

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May 6, 2010
I have a Pulitzer

Seriously, I do. I did less to earn my Pulitzer than President Barack Obama did to win his Nobel Peace Prize. Obama got his award for not being George W. Bush. I got my Pulitzer for being on the staff of the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2006 when “the staff” of the U-T won for […]

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May 6, 2010
No intelligence required

I’m really not sure how to appropriately gauge the level of stupidity on display here by school administrators. Five Live Oak High School students' First Amendment rights were challenged this morning when they were asked to leave school because they donned American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo. Officials at the school chose not to […]

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May 1, 2010
She’s probably not a “real” latina

This would be a much better country if all citizens – both natural and naturalized – were as conscientious and involved as Gabriella Saucedo.

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May 1, 2010
Declining journalism education

Andrew Breitbart has offered $100,000 to the United Negro College Fund if anyone can provide evidence that Tea Party protesters screamed the N-word at a few members of the Congressional Black Caucus as they walked from the Cannon office building to the Capitol on the day they voted to pass health care reform. No one […]

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April 29, 2010
The violence of crowds

I don’t know how many of you saw this video from the protests against the anti-illegal immigration law that Arizona passed last week, but I encourage you to take a look. (videos via Flopping Aces)   Here’s the scene from overhead: The video shows police escorting a lone anti-illegal immigration protester away from the crowd […]

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April 29, 2010
That was easier than I thought

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed a law last week that made what was already a federal crime – being in the country illegally – into a state crime (usually it’s the other way around). Today we get this story from the AP: Illegal Immigrants Leaving Arizona Over New Law If that was all it took, […]

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April 26, 2010
So much for that post-racial president thing

Claudia Schultz. Stay home.  You got us into this mess.

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