Are These Connected?

TOKYO —AP- A teenage boy carrying a severed head walked into a Japanese police station Tuesday saying he killed his mother, the latest in a series of grisly dismemberments that have horrified a nation renowned for its low crime rates.

CHICAGO â€”AP-  A girl and her grandparents have sued the Chicago Board of Education, alleging that a substitute teacher showed the R-rated film “Brokeback Mountain” in class.

The lawsuit claims that Jessica Turner, 12, suffered psychological distress after viewing the

Michelle Malkin has the story, with all kinds of links, of Tufts University jihad against free speech, at least the conservative kind. here.

Tufts, as a private school, has the right to establish any kind of speech code they alone

There’s a number of sub-plots involved with this post. (read it, and come back)

Full disclosure time: I’m an XM subscriber, but I don’t listen to O&A, and have never cared for that kind of radio, be it Stern,

“I’m not serving you.”

Jeff Ruby, Ruby’s Steakhouse, to O.J. Simpson.  Via Michelle Malkin.

Ruby’s act will not in of itself cleanse our culture.  It is a small step in the right direction.

Must have been a slow news day.   The media has a stock of standard stories they periodically dust-off and then foist-off as if they were new.   The nice thing about blogging about them, is that no new creative effort is

FOIA, reports, “NASA Ponders Mars Issues:”    

A FOIA request by the AP to NASA has uncovered that the space agency has begun to ponder important things about a trip to Mars, such as what happens if one of

Matthew Yglesias seems to have his knickers in twist over this quote from Dr. Thomas Sowell:

When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day

It is a leftard myth that law enforcement officers stop motorists based on the color of their skin.   As if you can acually identify skin color looking through the tinted glass of modern vehicles.  Oh well.

A federal study refutes

Regards Rosie O’Donnell leaving “The View”;

First of all, this is hardly an issue of national import, nor was it unpredictable. So, perhaps the press is making more out of this than is warranted. That said, however, there’s a pattern

Critics of vulgar, violent gangster-style rap music make a mistake when they write off the rap stars as stupid, immoral and self-destructive. They may be immoral and self-destructive, but they’re not stupid. As one of my readers observed in a

Steven Taylor, posting at OTB, links a story today regarding the firing of a VT professor:

An adjunct professor was fired after leading a classroom discussion about the Virginia Tech shootings in which he pointed a marker at some

There has been much talk on the board about the wussificiation of America, here and here.   Yet there is good news and bad news.   First the good, we still have people with foritude and balls.   Sadly they are not

Don Imus gets fired for calling the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy headed hos”, everyone gets ‘outraged’ by it and demands apologies and heads on platters, while rapper “Akon” simulates bruising, brutal sex on stage with an underage girl, tosses

Ace makes an interesting point today, almost offhandedly while discussing a different angle… which is often… indeed, in my experience, usually, how such points are made. Even he admidts this is off the cuff on his part.  He speaks of