(Thanks to commentor Roxy) . Via Doghouse Riley, Tom Scocca at Gawker explicates how “Conservative Scholars’ Investigation Says Bowdoin College Is Awesome“: Here’s your latest in identity politics and victimology: One day not quite three years ago, Thomas Klingenstein, a rich white man, found himself playing golf with Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College. …
Friday Afternoon Open Thread
(Arlo and Janis via GoComics.com) . This is why the Internet is winning the competition with print media — when we demand funny cat pics, John Cole gives us funny cat pics. Speaking of the Blogmaster, this one cracked me up: . (Arlo and Janis via GoComics.com) . What’s on the agenda for the start …
Gitmo “Dogged by Controversy”
It’s almost as if the people in charge didn’t want fair trials for the defendants, or possibly just didn’t want those men to move out of the ‘could be terrorists’ category: The military justice system at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, which has been dogged by charges of secret monitoring of proceedings and defense communications, became embroiled …
Open Thread: Not Far Enough
. From the Huffington Post: House GOP leadership is not likely to bring the Paycheck Fairness Act up for a vote any time soon, but House Democrats used a procedural move to force them to go on record opposing the bill on Thursday. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), the sponsor of the equal pay legislation, filed …
Later Night Open Thread: Sherman Alexie
The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,Video Archive . . Shamelessly swiped from Paul Constant. I have to admit, the internet has seriously damaged my longform reading skills — used to be I consistently read three to five books a week, and now I don’t read that many in a month… But …
DEFIANCE: It’s A Floor Wax TV Series and A Dessert Topping Online Game!
Because I have too many hobbies and not enough money, I don’t have cable and I’m not a gamer, but this is certainly an intriguing concept. Do any of you better equipped to judge want to offer an opinion?: … “Defiance,” a new series on Syfy that [premiered] on Monday, and Defiance, the new video …
Raymond Davis, “Our” Man in Lahore
Hey, remember this guy? Mark Mazzetti, who has a book to sell, tells in the NYTimes “How a Single Spy Helped Turn Pakistan Against the United States”: … Hours earlier, Davis had been navigating dense traffic in Lahore, his thick frame wedged into the driver’s seat of a white Honda Civic. A city once ruled …