Author: Dennis

I thought about posting this at the Campus, but I haven’t posted here in awhile and the subject seems to be leaning this way. In David Brooks’ assessment of the debate there was my friend Kristin’s favorite classical reference, Archilochus fr. 201: πόλλ? οἶδ? ἀλώπηξ, ἀλλ? ἐχῖνος ἓν μέγα. “The fox knows many things, but…

This from This is London: This is the moment when a woman was captured on CCTV lying unconscious in the gutter of a busy road, suffering from a serious head wound. Police raced to the scene after traffic was forced to swerve around the 25-year-old victim as she lay bleeding. Um … why wasn’t traffic…

I happened to catch a few minutes of the Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace and they were talking about Bush playing the expectations game. The line of they day came when one of the talking heads quoted Ed Gillespie of the RNC as calling John Kerry the best debater since Cicero.

Dan Rather’s initial, furious street-side defense of an amateurish forgery ? smug, huffy, self-righteous ? brings to mind one of those bad movies about the Paris barricades, especially the grainy, black-and-white shots of powdered and wigged aristocrats on their way to the Guillotine, yelling out of their carriages at pitchfork-carrying peasants. Read the rest of…

While Eric’s away I thought I’d post this bit on “assault weapons”: N EW YORKERS are at least four times as likely to be punched to death than to be killed with an assault-style rifle, unpublished state crime statistics show. Read it all.

It turns out that old propaganda film Reefer Madness was true! BLANTYRE, Malawi (Reuters) – A Malawian man believed to be high on marijuana beheaded two women with an axe Friday, police in the southern African country said. The man, in his mid-20s, beheaded a 52-year-old woman while she worked in her garden with her…

Burned out at the library on a Friday night (the bar awaits) all I can muster is my answer to Eric’s latest poll results: Sci-fi Guy: Ah, good ol’ Jean-Luc. Strangely appropriate. Brit Lit: Which British Literary Period are you? Restoration 1660-1785–Pope, Swift, Johnson. Times they are a changing. You’re very cynical and you like…

I stumbled upon a piece in the New York Review of Books written by Anthony Grafton, a Princeton professor whom I coincidentally nominated today to speak at a future event (fingers crossed — there are a number of fine candidates). I guess he’d finally gotten round to reviewing Caldwell and Thomason’s The Rule of Four,…

Eric H. from the Dave just pointed me to an article in the Bi-Co news that Michael Moore is coming to speak at Bryn Mawr. Moore approached Bryn Mawr for this venture, offering to speak for half of his $40,000 fee. … [H]e felt it was important to speak in Pennsylvania, a swing state. I’m…

The AP’s story on the beheading of American engineer Eugene Armstrong contains an odd but familiar line: The 9-minute tape, posted on a Web site used by Islamic militants, showed a man seated on the floor, blindfolded and wearing an orange jumpsuit – similar to the orange uniform worn by prisoners at the U.S. naval…

We’ve addressed this before. Of course the following article fails to mention forced abortion, sterilization and infanticide, all of which the U.N. Population Fund blindly supports: Couple Fined $94,000 for One-Child Rule Lapse BEIJING (Reuters) – A court in China’s southern boomtown of Shenzhen has fined a couple 780,000 yuan ($94,250) and sealed off their…

Our source at CBS has forwarded another screen capture: We would not go to web with this again if we were not confident about it’s accuracy.

This came as a bit of a surprise. Libertarian Tom Selleck was trying to intro a montage on stars who’ve passed over the past year, but the audience, who obviously didn’t realize he was leading toward a somber note, hailed him with whistles and catcalls. That wasn’t the surprising part. Politics aside, Tom Selleck is…

Classical Values has obtained damning evidence in the Rathergate cover-up, and we ask you Dan, respectfully, to answer the questions it raises: Journalistic ethics protect us from revealing our source, but we believe the screen capture to be at least accurate.

I’m not one to spoil the end of a good movie, but I had to share this, the last paragraph of Marc Steyn’s column in the Chicago Sun-Times: As for Heyward and Rather, the other day I came across a rare memo from April 20, 1653, typed on a 17th century prototype of the IBM…

Eric H. at the Dave has more on questionable questioning of time. The AP is feeding buying into the theory.

My favorite feature at Classical Values is back with a vengeance. This week’s winner? ‘Trend forecaster’ Merrill Greene: She said the less-bare look may be a response to the world around us. “It’s a way of protecting oneself. We might feel insecure about showing off, of looking too out there and too American,” she said.…

On my way to the library this morning I noticed a woman pushing a palm-button to open a door. Now, these are intended to assist the disabled who may not be able to open doors as easily as the rest of us, and I’ve always thought it a sign of extreme laziness when a person…

Back to a serious issue that has been of great concern here at Classical Values. the crisis in Darfur, Glenn Reynolds has posted a reader pic that you must see. I have been critical here in the past regarding the UN and have written about the Bush administration’s disgust over U.N. inaction. See? I wasn’t…

The following information comes from the documents themselves: BushGuardmay4.pdf: /ModDate (D:20040908210832-04’00’) /CreationDate (D:20040908210823-04’00’) BushGuardmay19.pdf /ModDate (D:20040908210815-04’00’) /CreationDate (D:20040908210807-04’00’) BushGuardaugust1.pdf /ModDate (D:20040908210739-04’00’) /CreationDate (D:20040908210704-04’00’) BushGuardaugust18.pdf: /ModDate (D:20040908210759-04’00’) /CreationDate (D:20040908210748-04’00’) So for what it’s worth, the documents were all created using Acrobat 5.0 Image Conversion Plug-in for Windows on Wednesday 8th September between 9:07 and 9:08 PM…