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No Tears Here We'll admit it: there's something about the whole coffee house industry that bugs us. Maybe it's the conspicuous consumerism of the whole thing: $3.00 for a cup of coffee. Maybe it's the academic pretension we acquaint with it.

Conservatives Distrust Authority? David Greenberg at Slate has written a scathing criticism of Thomas E. Woods' The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. Essentially, Greenberg is using Woods' book to stab at what he calls “populist conservatism,” a type of conservatism that “exhibit(s) scorn for intellectual authority

Breasts and the Beast No cost too great in the pursuit of proving species equality: Everyone has heard of Koko, the gorilla who lives at the Gorilla Foundation and knows a thousand words in sign language. News of the Weird reports that two of Koko's female handlers filed

Non-Eugenic Thought The March 14th issue of U.S. News & World Report has a short article on page 66 about Down syndrome children. According to the piece, parents of Down syndrome children often find them a unique blessing, but doctors "don't do an adequate job in

ACLU on BSA The Americans for Catamites and Lesbians Union continues to flail away at the Boy Scouts, this time on separation of church and state grounds. LINK [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43258]. Two excerpts: "The Boy Scouts of America is pulling the charters

Million Degraded Babes The Washington Monthly has published a hard hitting (heh heh heh) essay [http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2005/0503.wallace-wells2.html] against female boxing. It turns out that Million Dollar Baby isn't just a warped film about the glory of euthanasia. It's also

NOW Has a Cow (Again) The only woman ever to serve as president of the NRA, Marion Hammer, will be inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame. And the feminists are mad. It appears the expansion of women's opportunities is good only if the expansion

Erase Race Funny op-ed in the Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/03/13/do1306.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2005/03/13/ixop.html] this morning about classifying people by race. The writer contacted various agencies in Britain in order to determine what criteria

The New Pot Heads Another study [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=711&e=15&u=/usatoday/20050310/tc_usatoday/electronicworldswallowsupkidstimestudyfinds] crying for a Marshall McLuhan revival: "The USA's children live in an increasingly heavy stew of media, spending about 6½

Big GKC We've been told we don't post enough pictures. It's true that we don't post many, but this blog is a little different. In addition to commentary about current events, we post literary and historical references that you don't