He's better at playing the Squire of Gothos.

Parents just don't understand.

Sic semper rinosis.

That cigar -a Rocky Patel - is my fault in a way.  Or at least the picture is.  Andrea took that picture over a year ago to show me and one of her other friends how much she was enjoying it!

I remember the Ryan Leaf era.  Too bad he couldn't make it in the NFL.  I have immediate family in Yakima, so I've kept up with the Huskies and Cougars over the years.

Ha!  I will post an entry about him in the Member Feed one of these days, I promise.  Before I do that, though, I want to read a couple of books related to Coach Leach's unjust dismissal: Double-T Double-Cross by Michael Lanning and Mike Leach's autobiography, Swing Your Sword.  That should give me a better perspective on what actually went down in December 2009.

By the way, I'm glad to see that Leach landed at Washington State.  They can look forward to many years of first-rate college football while Tech continues to languish under Tommy Tuberville.

Ban college football?

Over this Red Raider's dead body.  Wreck 'em, Tech!

Stop, or my approved locked container will shoot!

Keep Texas beautiful: put a Yankee on a bus.

Thus, I agree with what Mark Steyn and now John O'Sullivan (per the clip above) have said about this matter.  The answer to controversial speech is more speech, not less.  Healthy and vigorous debate will build a strong and lasting conservatism, not hypersensitivity and kowtowing to the whims and witch-hunts of the leftist elite (and their hangers-on).  This is no time for tiptoe-through-the-tulips conservatism. Nor, as Margaret Thatcher once admonished George H.W. Bush, is it time to go wobbly. It is a damned shame that Rich Lowry et al. cannot understand that.

Thank you, Peter.  I am glad to see this matter addressed on the Main Feed. In my own two posts about l'affaire Derbyshire over on the Member Feed, I was rather coy about my own take on the matter.  In a nutshell, I disagree with what Derbyshire wrote, but I do not think that National Review should have fired him. National Review is a mere shade of what it once was when I opened up my subscription to the magazine 20 years ago, and Rich Lowry's feckless response to this situation underlines that decline.

John Derbyshire was one of my favorite writers at National Review and National Review Online, and the organization is now a much poorer place in his absence.  Moreover, I say that as someone who has disagreed with Derbyshire on a wide array of issues, among them: the war in Iraq, Social Security reform, the Terry Schiavo case back in 2005, abortion, euthanasia, and his dismissive view of Ben Stein's intelligent design movie from 2008, Expelled.  At no point did I ever think that such unorthodox opinions merited Derbyshire's dismissal.   Rather, I enjoyed the give-and-take.

I took the Skin Tone IAT and came out with a strong preference for white.  But then I took the White-Asian IAT and came out with a strong preference for Asian.  Perhaps having lived in Japan as a child some thirty years ago has something to do with it.  Or perhaps I'm the Derb reincarnated. ;-)

Reckon that makes Mr. Ryan a "turkey murderer!!!!!1!one!!!!eleventy!!!!"

I have updated my original post.  In his latest entry at The Corner, Rich Lowry states that National Review and John Derbyshire have parted ways.

I'm game.  That'd be one hell of a podcast, if I do say so myself!

Because she is determined to see the Republican Party have its weakest presidential nominee since Alf Landon.