Make sure all of your organic/vegan/enviro friends see this cartoon from the New Yorker. Maybe pass it on to a few cruncy cons as well.
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America Owes Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein a Debt of Thanks
We live in an era when political role models are hard to find, integrity is at a premium, and it’s exceedingly difficult to find people or institutions who seem willing to put country over party, to set aside the powerful pull of tribalism and self-interest and fulfill their oaths of office. In the aftermath of ...
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The Lure of Outsiderism
In a Wall Street Journal piece this weekend recounting his brief and harrowing recent experience at The Atlantic, Kevin Williamson ably notes a common pattern in this moment in our national life. Discussing a panel he attended at the chic South by Southwest conference, he writes:
Which brings us back to that ...
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Standards for Student Discipline Versus Standards for Faculty Discipline
Student-discipline cases have been quite prominent in recent years, due almost entirely to the spate of Title IX accusations. We seldom hear anything about faculty-discipline cases, except those involving Title IX.
The difference in how student misconduct and faculty misconduct is handled is the topic of ...
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Monday Links
A Supercut of Epic Movie Explosions.
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Vintage animation lessons -- how to make things cute.
London's "Great ...
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Authorities Confiscated Waffle House Shooter’s Guns Months Before Massacre
Authorities confiscated Travis Reinking's AR-15 months before he used it to kill four people at a Waffle House in Tennessee, according to Illinois police records.
Reinking, who has been on the run since the Sunday shooting, was detained by secret service in July after breaching the White House perimeter in an ...
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We’re a People in Need of Babette’s Feast
Everything seems to become at once deeper and lighter from the moment you sit down in the Theatre at St. Clement’s Episcopal Church for the off-Broadway production of Babette’s Feast. Originally a short story first published in English in Ladies' Home Journal, it’s the story of a Christian community in ...
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On Trade, No One Is Waiting for Washington
President Donald Trump’s flips and flops on trade are now as ubiquitous as his 5:00 a.m. tweets. Many predicted that trade-expansion efforts would come to a standstill and world commerce would suffer amidst all the uncertainty. Instead, the precise opposite has happened. In the last few months, it’s become ...
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Trump’s Syria Quandary
President Trump raised eyebrows recently when he ended a tweet lauding the airstrikes he’d ordered against chemical-weapons facilities in Syria with the words “mission accomplished.” The phrase, of course, became infamous in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, when President Bush used it in a speech ...
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The Dark Side of the Starbucks Stand-Down
By now the story is all over America. Earlier this month, two black men entered a Starbucks store in Philadelphia. They were apparently waiting for a friend before ordering — the kind of thing people do every day — and one of the men asked to use the restroom. A Starbucks employee refused, saying the restroom ...
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