“Memorial” costs Dems interim seat
Gov. Jesse Ventura was offended by the tone of the memorial last night for Senator Wellstone, and will likely appoint an Independent to fill the…
News
Wah-Hoo-Nah
Sound argument against bringing back the Indian mascot by one of Dartmouth’s finest. We need more profs like Calloway, folks who are at least honest…
Bad Pun
According to the D, someone has cut a swastika into a couch in the Rockefeller Center. Dean Larimore’s statement (really) was: “Incidents like these really…
Oh Goody
Famed political pundit Barbara Streisand released all of her endorsements last week. You can find them here. Also, while you’re there you can buy some…
Anti-Semitism at Yale
From this article in the Yale Daily News (via Sullivan): In a mind-boggling act of vandalism, the posterboard memorial to 14 Israelis killed in a…
A woman seeks reparations from US companies
Deadria Farmer-Paellmann is descended from South Carolina rice slaves and now plans to make US companies pay. She is targeting “every US company that profited…
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, George Orwell, etc.?
Books by these authors and many others are in the public domain in many countries but not in the U.S., given the many extensions to…
The D
“‘The Greens can sputter around and make all the noise they want,’ Begley said. ‘I don’t care.’” And with that, I join the select few,…
“Transgendered students have nowhere to go to the bathroom on campus”
From the Boston Globe (via the Corner): Transgendered students at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, unable to persuade administrators in the past year to…
Football Update
Ben Flickinger sends this in: The rest of the Ivy League had better watch out. Dartmouth has equaled its win total for the last 2…