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Sorry, but the first thing that came to my mind when I read this story was: "Candygram for Mongo."

He's preyed on our fears. His name's Al Gore and 15 years ago he was tough on Saddam. The only consistency is that Gore's delivery hasn't changed a whole lot.

That's really the big question. That's the divide that we have in the nation's political and legal landscape. It's the difference between Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards. It's the difference between the bases of the GOP and Democrat parties. And it's an issue that's dividing the judiciary. You've got judges who say President Bush can't […]

Washington Post metro columnist Mark Fisher covered today's trial in the case of the famous $65 million pants lawsuit. After questioning eight witnesses, Pearson spent two hours telling his own story, but as he came to the part about when Soo Chung finally told him she had found the missing pants, the tale of the […]

Twenty years ago today, President Ronald Reagan gave one of his most famous speeches. Over at Powerline, they've got a short piece on the backstory behind the famous speech.

Every time I read something worth blogging about, I keep it open in a separate Firefox tab until I get around to it. I don't always get around to it in a prompt manner, so here's some interesting reads from the past week or so, so I can close some of these tabs. Sci-Fi author […]

I'm going to call this a "bad move." Sen. Hillary Clinton has announced that one of her national campaign co-chairs is Florida Democrat Rep. Alcee Hastings. What's going to be in the first paragraph of Rep. Hastings obituary? In 1988, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives took up the case, and Hastings was impeached for […]

You may recall the story of the Washington, D.C., administrative law judge who was suing his cleaners for losing his favorite pair of suit pants. He was suing for $67 million. Well, he's apparently come to his senses. Now he has decided he'll settle for a mere $54 million.

This posted started as a kind of run-on thought to the previous post, so it's probably a good idea to scroll down and read the next post, then come up to this one. I posited in the previous post that animosity towards "Evangelical Christians" in academia was because that term is believed to be synonymous […]

It shouldn't be news to anyone that the typical college campus doesn't really reflect the outside world -- there's a reason it's described as the ivory tower. However, what is news is this survey [PDF format] on college faculty members and their feelings toward religion. MAJOR FINDINGS Most Faculty Believe in God, but Atheism Is […]