Archive for 2015

WEIRD, I AGREE WITH HILLARY ON SOMETHING: Hillary Clinton’s dream debate is one nobody watches.  It’s not that I don’t like Democratic presidential debates.  It’s that I don’t get vodka delivered by tanker truck, and watching them sober would be cruelty to Sarahs.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: ARE YOUR ROMANTIC ATTRACTIONS RACIST? “After pressing ‘send,’ he immediately regretted it. Colorado College student Thaddeus Pryor realized he had acted recklessly when he made a Yik Yak post on campus which said that black women ‘aren’t hot.’ He soon deleted the message.” But not before his college “initially suspended Pryor for 21 months, lessening the sentence to six months after his request for an appeal. However, the school refused to give him a new hearing.”

Related: “What I believe about race is that race is not real,” Rachel Dolezal, former NAACP leader and African studies lecturer, tells the UK Guardian. “It’s not a biological reality. It’s a hierarchical system that was created to leverage power and privilege between different groups of people.”

MY PREDICTION: In a confrontation between state legislators and accreditors, the legislators will win.

JOURNALISM: Harper’s issues its first retraction ever: A piece by disgraced ‘fabulist’ Stephen Glass from 1998.

Question: Is this the only thing Harper’s has ever published that’s worthy of a retraction? Because that would be pretty impressive in a magazine that old. And why retract this now, after so long? Because Glass requested it: “He didn’t respond to my call to his office at a Beverly Hills law firm, where he serves as a non-lawyer staff member, but it’s reasonable to conclude that it’s related to his quest for a California law license.”