Come children and learn about our Dear Leader

The Wall Street Journal reports on the new Obama children's book whose title, "Yes We Can," probably induces vomiting in all be the most hardened Democrats these days. I just hope the Journal was being facetious when their review described people who (I hope to God) don't exist:

Yikes! Here's one group likely to be bitter and in pain: parents who buy this Obama biography for their children thinking that it presents an unbiased or apolitical portrait.

Thankfully, I was able to grow out of Robin Hood and Ted Turner's Captain Planet, so there is some hope for the indoctrinated.

Sarcastic sarcasm

[The majority] would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons.

-Justice John Paul Stevens

(HT: Thinking on the Margin)

Winemaker, vintner, or ward of the state?

Where are glorified farmers wielding baseball bats able to chase police from their soon-to-be-torched cars and sack supermarkets? That would be France (scroll down to "Vintners' demands for aid turn violent in France"). Would a Second Amendment take care of this lawlessness? I think so.

In other news, today's Sports page in The Oklahoman had Kevin Love, the fifth pick in this year's NBA draft, listed as "6-3, 190." I thought that was pretty funny.

Take that crime and tyrrany!

District of Columbia et al v. Heller

Kudos go out to Robert A. Levy, the Cato Institute, the Institute for Justice, Justices Scalia, Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas and Alito, and many others.

Quotable (6/24/08)

"What do they use the building for now?" I asked.
"Storage," my guide said.
"What do they store there?"
"Nothing."

From a Wall Street Journal article on Myanmar/Burma (A Wall Street Journal Reporter, "Lost Hope: Once Glittering, Yangon Is Now a Ramshackle City of Fear," June 21, 2008). Note that the article is signed by "A Wall Street Journal Reporter." There's some fear for ya.

Hey, money's money

So, Texas Southern University has been sending me e-mails because I accidentally had my FAFSA sent to them when I was applying to law schools last semester. The most recent e-mail said that I had received some financial aid, which I think is quite odd since I never even sent them an application for admission, just the FAFSA. But anyhow, I was kinda curious to see how much money they would give me so I was messing around on their financial aid website, which is incredibly hard to navigate by the way, and I noticed that one of the scholarships available to TSU students through the State of Texas is the Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship.

Now, if you're familiar with Robert C. Byrd and Texas Southern University you're probably getting a pretty good kick out of this pairing, but I'll help the rest of you out: Senator Robert Carlyle Byrd was formerly an Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan; Texas Southern University was formerly known as Texas State University for Negroes, and their enrollment is still predominantly black.

I wonder how many TSU students put a Robert C. Byrd Scholarship on their resume?

What the Hell does "coterminous" mean?

The Tulsa World reports (Jill Lawless, "England: Officials asked to stop using buzzwords," June 22, 2008):

The [British Local Government Association's] chairman, Simon Milton, said officials should not "hide behind impenetrable jargon and phrases."

"Why do we have to have 'coterminous, stakeholder engagement' when we could just 'talk to people' instead?" he said.

Enter Jeff Flake, from 3:18 to 4:16 in particular, but watch the whole thing - it's a Flake Hour classic. I especially love how the girl in the background attempts to remain unaffected, but succumbs.