’Hole of color?’ No, ’black’ will do

The people at the rules committee meeting who keep acting like children, yelling and whining whenever someone else speaks, are not doing her any favors. Wow! And Harold Ickes just vowed to take this fight to the credentials committee ... and the whiners started chanting "Denver, Denver!" They might as well chant "McCain, McCain!" --Michael Landauer... more

Just did an email exchange with Scott McClellan...Here’s his take on "what happened" and how Washington can work better. Look for this in Viewpoints tomorrow. Let’s start with the Bush family feud that’s been going on over your book. Surely you must have assumed something like this would happen if you gave a pretty clear critique of where the administration went wrong. McClellan: I expected a pretty strong reaction but was surprised by how personal some of it was. I know t... more

I blogged yesterday about my disappointment at the Texas Supreme Court’s ruling. As part of my entry, I said that we know girls under 16 were impregnanted at the ranch. That comment drew questions. So, here’s some of my supporting evidence: First, this statement from the CPS website: Minor mothers and their children are being kept together, Second, from Dahlia Lathwick’s DMN Viewpoints piece The Court rejected ....that evidence of a handful of pregnant minors was enough to p... more

One of ’em seems to have invented a field of scholarly inquiry: . Excerpt: Waste studies is a brand new academic discipline invented by Susan Signe Morrison, a dark-haired, extroverted 49-year-old professor of English at Texas State University’s San Marcos campus and mother of two (her husband is also an English professor) who organized the session and admitted with good-humored candor in an email that her new field’s disgust-provoking subject matter might be a "challe... more