Intelligent design isn’t

Posted by Richard Bennett

Things have been slow in the blogosphere the last few days, and the tired old debate about Intelligent Design has reared its ugly head again. It seems to have started on talk radio host Hugh Hewitt’s website, as an overly long and extremely boring attack on a perfectly unremarkable news story in the Washington Post [...]

Merry Christmas

Posted by Richard Bennett

…and happy new year.
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Democrat shenanigans get serious

Posted by Richard Bennett

The latest buzz from Sound Politics is that the Seattle election canvas board has given enough of the questionable ballots to their candidate Gregoire to overturn the two previous counts and give the election to the annointed Democrat. Democrats in the Seattle media are circling their wagons around the canvassing board and declaring their critics [...]

Misunderstanding Oakland

Posted by Richard Bennett

A few years ago, the chronically mismanaged Oakland School Board tried to grab some state and federal ESL money by claiming their students were native speakers of a non-English language called “Ebonics”. Unaware of this motivation, Dean Esmay tries to justify the notion of Ebonics:
Simply put, so-called “Ebonics,” which is also called “Black Vernacular English” [...]

“My precious color scheme”

Posted by Richard Bennett

Ms. LeGuin is really, really upset with the Sci-Fi channel for failing to respect her “color scheme” in the Earthsea trilogy. What a dilletante she must be.
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Fits of Laughter

Posted by Richard Bennett

Marc Cooper reports that Hugo Chavez will receive the presigious Ghadafy Human Rights Award for his efforts in media censorship:

Venezuelan con man, Bolivarian Revolutionary, Great-Thinker and sitting President Hugo Chavez has just returned home from a tour of showcase democratic countries including Cuba, Iran and Libya. Chavez dropped in on Colonel Ghadafy, by the [...]

Back from the dead

Posted by Richard Bennett

The highly-regarded Howard Owens is blogging again, so check him out.
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Give to Spirit of America

Posted by Richard Bennett

Tomorrow’s your last chance to give to the Spirit of America blogger challenge.
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Is Riverbend for real?

Posted by Richard Bennett

A number of anti-war people are holding up an alleged Iraqi blogger who goes by the pseudonym “Riverbend” as the authentic voice of the Iraqi people. Martini Republic, David Isenberg, and the pretentious Juan Cole are examples. But it’s unlikely that Riverbend is what she claims to be.
On MR’s comments, USA Today writer Cesar Soriano, [...]

No bad deed goes unpunished

Posted by Richard Bennett

Juan Cole, the pretentious history professor from Michigan, made some especially idiotic remarks about Iraqi bloggers recently, and Jeff Jarvis had to set him straight:

The man is pond scum. I know no other way to say it. This guy Cole (supported by your tax dollars in Michigan) decides that if he disagrees with someone, he [...]