Sign of the Times

Now in his early fifties, my father receives the monthly AARP Bulletin. On page sixteen of the June 2009 issue, I learn from the header of the cover, I can read all about the following:
“Scam Alert: Is Your Facebook Friend An Identity Thief?”
This troubles me for at least three reasons.

I shall not attend the University’s campus-wide commencement

The secular Left PWNs us now.
There will be no more prayer at the campus-wide commencement ceremony after the University Senate voted to eliminate the practice yesterday.

The senate approved a proposal that eliminates a prayer invocation at the university’s annual commencement ceremony in a 32-14 vote after a lengthy debate that touched on the [...]

Porn, Rights, and Higher Education Or, Thank God I’m Gone in Two Months

The University of Maryland: Our basketball team fails; featuring two socialists, a communist, and left-liberal constitutes intellectual diversity, and we like to show xxx-rated porn on campus.

(Some) Journalists to get a (quasi-)Bailout?

My thoughts on Ben Cardin’s proposal, at The Terrapin Times.

UMD’s Diamondback and the State of “Higher Education.” FML.

Over at The Terrapin Times, I’m sad.

No Faith in the Fed

From an article in today’s Post
After his speech, Bernanke was asked when he expected the economy would recover.
“My forecasting record is about the same as the win-loss record of the Washington Nationals,” he said.
In four years in Washington, the Team Formerly Known As The Expos have a record of 284-363, only in the first season [...]

More on Why I’m not a Libertarian — Or, When Belief in “the Market” is just risible, sad, and disgusting

1. Sitting in peculiarly busy traffic in downtown Baltimore this afternoon, I read, on the news monitor wrapped around a trashily modern glass building, a headline from the Baltimore Sun that informed me that Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) has proposed a bill to create a new government agency “that could stop lenders from offering mortgages [...]

“A big corporation”

That’s what one Maryland state delegate thinks of the flagship university of the University System of Maryland!

Roland Burris is a colossal d’bag

Burris has declared, despite facts to the contrary, “I’m a United States senator.”
He isn’t.
While Blagojevich has signed formal appointments papers, Jesse White, the Illinois secretary of state, has not, and Senate rules require that signature.
Burris, in turn, has gone to court hoping to win an order for White to sign the necessary paperwork, [...]

What’s this, a web-log? What’s this, change?

Okay, so I have been dreadfully remiss in tending to Nathancontramundi. I’ve been busy receiving speeding tickets and enjoying time with the family and Christmas and not getting plastered on New Year’s Eve and applications to Ph.D. programs in political science (theory specifically) and trying to be a healthier person and trying to read [...]