“Real books” are the books you read. It doesn’t really matter if they’re paper or digital, as long as you keep the habit of reading, and for many people, an e-reader does that.

Every year, a lazy hack gets to file a 700-word laugh-piece on the panel titles at the MLA. That’s fine: there’s no griping about how English departments need to be shut down pronto. Every year, the Ig Nobels receive press for “awarding” prizes to the weirdest research that actually gets published in peer-reviewed journals. That’s fine: nobody opines about how science and soc-sci departments need to be shut down. There’s an understanding that a lot of what seems weird to the general public has a function within a particular academic field.

Black Studies departments exist, in part, because of a history of institutional discrimination which in turn leads to a deficit in scholarship thanks to a combination of avoidance and neglect. From my perspective (with a doctorate of my own that’s gathering dust) it looks like a field that is ripe for damn good research.

Riley’s future in wingnut welfare is guaranteed, but I’d like to see her sign up as a sports blogger for the WSJ, premised on never watching a game. She’s got the disdain down pat.

All tanbark and no tanbite.

Blech, talk radio.

This is apparently “hot talk” radio, a variation on the “morning zoo” genre that I never knew existed and now wish I didn’t know existed: fratboy Stern-wannabe fuckwits on the rock FM station gobshiteing for the benefit of other fratboy fuckwits.

Over the next several weeks, we will contact every major Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Mormon and Muslim leader and organization in the nation; they will be sent the picture, along with Stewart’s remarks.

So, does that mean it’s okay to contact every bishop, archbishop, cardinal and assorted beanie-wearer to ask if they personally support Bullshit Bill’s crusade?

The bishops love using him to push their POV, but they get antsy when Donohue starts acting like a bishop himself.

Yep, he’s how the red beanies launder opinions that would earn appropriate disgust were they issued from the diocesan office. Nice little tactic, and the only way to challenge it is to demand that Dolan and company back every utterance from Donohue or back the fuck away from it.

Shouldn’t Amy Sullivan stick to re-publishing her one article about how Democrats need to get some of that ol’time religion?

I think you have to scrap Plan A to get to Plan B, not modify it.

Good luck with that one. The most likely reform model for the US was always likely to look like Switzerland’s, because you can’t wish very very hard or jump in a time machine and take away the last half-century of American healthcare.

It’s good that the press actually got the beanie brigade spokesbot on record.

Now, doesn’t that mean that Bullshit Bill can’t be trusted, and thus should be ignored in future? Or is he still there to say the things that they can’t admit in public?

But occasionally they do climb on the roof to recharge.

The Jesse Malkin bio is inadvertently hilarious: “Doesn’t really know how to use Twitter, so is relying on Twitchy’s editors to tell him who said what.”

So, given the Tarantino theme [SPOILERS] they’re all going to end up shooting each other?

That Virgin Ben continues to be employed shows that wingnut welfare is the gift that keeps giving to gits.

It’s not that, exactly: she thought that she could make the leap to the wingnut welfare A-list with her wretched book about internment, except that a bunch of actual historians ripped it to shreds. Since then, it’s been Regnery and bulk sales and peeking though people’s windows.

I am happy for those people whose lives will now be left unruined by petty malice.

Blenderella addresses that by saying that she moved back with her parents when she was 30, with $100k in student loan debt from her U. Chi. Master of Bugger All, so she knows exactly what it’s like to be a boomerang kid.

(Except not really at all.)

Speaking of the BBC, they showed this documentary on actual poor people in America a fortnight ago. You know, the ones who aren’t pained by casual incivility, or mortified by the mutilation of a compliment.

And you wonder why nobody takes climate issues seriously?

Oh, poots, we already know that you’re a selfish dumbfuck. That you’re a selfish dumbfuck who already celebrated the outright theft of email just makes you a hypocritical selfish dumbfuck.

And you wonder why nobody takes climate issues seriously?

Oh, poots, we already know that you’re a selfich dumbfuck. That you’re a selfish dumbfuck who already celebrated the outright theft of email just makes you a hypocritical selfish dumbfuck.

She’s literally married to this issue.

She’s literally married to the mob.