Um, no.
75 percent of the seniors headed to Dallas community colleges can’t read above an 8th grade level, and others can’t add or subtract.
That’s 75% of the ones headed to college. Good lord. It would be funny if it weren’t a tragedy.
What is funny is that clearly, the reporter who wrote […]
Foreign aid workers in Burma have concluded that as many as 50,000 people died in Saturday’s cyclone, and two to three million are homeless, in a disaster on a scale comparable with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
….Today private frustration was growing among aid organisations, however, that although the junta has publicly invited assistance, bureaucracy is […]
I got a few emails about this story over the weekend and couldn’t bring myself to believe it’s true until I saw all the other bloggers talking about it, and now I just want to eat a salad and feed green beans to my dogs.
At the request of the Swiss government, an ethics panel has […]
No, I could not let this one pass; I don’t think I’ve ever gotten more emails about an article than this one. Check it out:
Art major Aliza Shvarts ‘08 wants to make a statement.
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially […]
As though there aren’t enough reasons already. I know, right?
Anyway, this story should win an award for being simultaneously troubling and hilarious. I bolded the part where I started laughing and wanting to smack someone at the same time.
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — A couple fighting about which gang their 4-year-old toddler […]
Have you seen this? Michelle Malkin has details.
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From the LA Times:
The billboard and press campaign, created by advertising agency Teran\TBWA and now running in Mexico, is a colorful map depicting what the Americas might look like in an “Absolut” — i.e., perfect — world.
The U.S.-Mexico border lies where it was before the Mexican-American war […]
Companies who give much MUCH better deals to brand-new customers than to longtime established customers. That is bullshit.
Specifically, the cell phone people, running their racket. God how I hate them.
I’ve been with Sprint since 1999. Never paid a day late in those almost-10 years.
So several months ago, I was at […]
At The Corner, Jonah Goldberg links to this story, which says that a teacher is being sued for this:
Chad Farnan, a 16-year-old sophomore, says the teacher, James Corbett, told his students that “Jesus glasses” obscure the truth and suggested that Christians are more likely than other people to commit rape and murder.
Farnan recorded his teacher […]
Remember how Al Sharpton was protesting the fact that some black teenage rapists were denied bail? The articles I linked for that simply said he was protesting and handing out fliers; just wanted you to know what the fliers said, and Sharpton’s an even bigger race-hustlin’ asshole that you ever could have possibly imagined.
Via […]
If you’re a strip-club owner in the city of Dallas, which of the following could result in the revocation of your strip club license?
A. Someone smokes a doobie in your club with your knowledge.
B. Two adults engage in consensual but paid-for sex with your knowledge.
C. A 12-year-old works as a stripper on […]
If this isn’t the first time you’ve ever heard of Al Sharpton, none of this will surprise you. Google ‘Tawana Brawley’ for a clue. But since this is a man who is taken at least a little seriously and is one of the biggest race hustlers in America, thus making him an asshole, […]
Not that it means anything, but Drudge has a headline right now that annoys me so bad, maybe because it’s not true:
In case you can’t see the image, the headline is: “BLOODBATH: 5 Killed in Iowa City Shooting…” and it links to this article, which says:
Police arrived at the scene and found the house unlocked. […]
Via Hot Air, check this out (oh and by the way, the victim in the case was 16 years old):
The state Court of Criminal Appeals voted 4-1 in favor of Riccardo Gino Ferrante, who was arrested in 2006 for situating a camera underneath the girl’s skirt at a Target store and taking photographs.
Ferrante, now 34, […]
Via Malkin, check this out:
Parents in Deerfield, Ill., are upset that a local high school is using books in advanced English classes this spring that they say are laced with graphic sexual content, pervasive expletives and mockery of religion.
Worse, the books - “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (Parts 1 & 2)” […]
So I was over at HuffPo again, trolling for material, and found this “advice” piece titled “Caring For Impossible Parents”:
Q: I am a 56 year old woman with a family and a career. Needless to say I am busy. But lately I have to also take care of my mother. My father died five years […]
