Honorary degree for Brinker?
This diary comes a little late to the party, but I don't think anyone else has covered this wrinkle to the entire Komen debacle....Duke University announced its honorary degree recipients just before...
View ArticleData mining and the "Christian" vote
Heard on All Things Considered this afternoon, a story about a new non-profit signing up "Christians" who are not registered to vote - to vote for conservative candidates who will uphold God's law....
View ArticleUVa Board emails, FOIA'ed
The UVa saga continues tonight....WaPo reporting that the board now may have the votes to reinstate President Teresa Sullivan and will meet next week on the matter. They also profile the Rector of the...
View ArticleTrump, trumped
Trump bailing on the Republicanfest in Tampa, supposedly because of the weather....According to WaPo: As recently as Saturday afternoon, Trump was scheduled to collect the Sarasota Republican Party’s...
View ArticleI remember 1963.
I was five in 1963. Kennedy was a Catholic; he was from the northeast; he was young, and had a young wife and kids that were the same age as my sister and me. I don't know if my family had voted for...
View ArticleThe pie fight. As intended (1927)
Kossacks should appreciate this: the mother of all pie fights, from 1927, featuring 3000 pies (!), can now be restored.
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