After lunch, we flew back to the East Bay. In January, Scott and I walked across the Golden Gate Bridge on a Saturday afternoon. First, we took BART into San Francisco and had fancy dim sum at Hakkasan to carbo-load before our seven-mile (11 km) hike. I’m not sure how many ...
"Indian Outlaw" is reflective of a less politically correct time in country America, to say the least. Michael Peterson, "Drink, Swear, Steal & Lie" Reprise Records Michael Peterson, "Drink, Swear, Steal & Lie" Michael Peterson was a late '90s two-hit wonder, but this mix of pop ...
Later still, Bob defended Israel’s right to defend itself. The liberals, now rebranded as politically correct “progressives,” didn’t like that, either. Bullies never like people who believe in defense. Nobel Prize announcements are watched almost as closely as “American Idol” and the Swe...
Below is the “all must have prizes” bit. Sadly, given that there are more candidates for academic jobs than there are jobs, some people aren’t going to make it. Here’s a statement that East Carolina University, where most of the authors come from, put on their website after George...
Dear Mr. President I don’t like your program on the Middle East, right? Or I support your position on education, right? Well, when these letters came into the White House, physical letters, the White House, believe it or not, had 147 buckets....
By 1880, half the population in the east lived in towns, and movement away from the farm became obvious. Increasing industrialization and mechanization of the country, now in full swing after the war, soon produced extremes of wealth and poverty. Added to this was the fact that the frontier...
World C’ship decided not just by chess but also with better character and willpower: Gukesh Poet Veerankutty releases debut poetess Adharva’s first book ‘Aazham’ Allu Arjun’s ‘Pushpa 2’ hits Rs 500 crore mark at global box office Indian government has not announced any tax exemption...
It’s not politically correct any more to black yourself up and play a different race (although did anyone else notice that the Indian character inThe Social Networkwas played by a white actor?), but thankfully, it is still politically correct to play a different sexual orientation. And there...
It remains current in certain countries in some other parts of the world (South-East Asia, Africa, Middle East, Caribbean). Institutional: CP in prisons, reformatories, children's homes and other official institutions as punishment for breaches of internal discipline; to a lesser extent also in...
“the Middle East isn’t worth it anymore.” He’s right. Every deployment, every operation conducted in the region seems to just serve as self-justification. We’re there because we’re there. We’re staying because we’re there. We have to protect our forces there because that’s ...