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  1. Primary night? Again?

    Althouse - May 14, 2008

    Start the discussion without me. I've got to do something. ADDED: Hi. I'm back. The blogger meetup was tonight. Didn't you know? AND: The NYT says: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton won a lopsided victory on Tuesday …

    Tagged: west virginia, hillary

  2. Pun.

    Althouse - May 14, 2008

    Fun. (Or did that belong on The Me Blog?)

    Tagged: blogging

  3. Is it a good or a bad sign when a university sees the need to hire a "Professor of Conservative Thought"?

    Althouse - May 14, 2008

    This is the proposal for an endowment at the University of Colorado. Amusingly enough, the idea bugs liberals and conservatives: "Why set aside money specifically for a conservative?" asks Curtis Bell, a teaching …

    Tagged: education, anthropology, conservatism, david horowitz

  4. "Liberals, of all people, should avoid making the passive/active distinction [and] support the death penalty..."

    Althouse - May 14, 2008

    ... if it's really true — and it seems to be — that executions save lives. Jac explains: If you're a liberal (in the sense in which "liberal" is used in modern-day America -- as Barack Obama put it, someone whose …

    Tagged: law, death penalty, obama, liberalism

  5. Robert Rauschenberg has died.

    Althouse - May 14, 2008

    Links to obituaries to follow. Here's an old post of mine about him, from back in 2004: Robert Rauschenberg answers some questions from Deborah Solomon in today's NYT: Aren't you having another show now at Yale? …

    Tagged: art, music, homosexuality, sculpture, yale, insects, picasso, surrealism

  6. "The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses..."

    Althouse - May 14, 2008

    "... the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish." So wrote Albert Einstein. "For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most …

    Tagged: einstein, religion, god, bible, judaism

  7. 1925 is today's year that blog forgot.

    Althouse - May 14, 2008

    Blogging the past today, I note: The question whether women can be jurors. Playing jazz to the head-hunters. Snakes found in Ireland. "A Thrill of the Old Prussian Spirit" as Paul von Hindenburg takes the oath of …

    Tagged: music, germany, blogging, history, feminism, snakes

  8. “Just wait ‘til we win like 80-20.”

    Althouse - May 14, 2008

    80-20? Why not 90-10? This thing is doable!

    Tagged: west virginia, hillary

  9. Congress cracks down on flavored cigarettes to show it cares about children...

    Althouse - May 14, 2008

    ... and has to cut a swath around menthol to show it cares about black people. Or... wait... is it supposed to show it cares about black people by helping them like smoking less? It's so hard to be a caring …

    Tagged: health, law, smoking, commerce, racial politics

  10. "Offered food before the interview, he declined saying he didn't want to line his stomach with grease before going out drinking."

    Althouse - May 14, 2008

    Interview gaffes. • Candidate answered cell phone and asked the interviewer to leave her own office because it was a "private" conversation. • Applicant told the interviewer he wouldn't be able to stay with the job …

    Tagged: food, death, drinking, grooming, etiquette, commerce, bodily fluids

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