Excellent point! The football coach is also one of the few "state employees" that can be fired based on his performance (and with only a few weeks notice).

Ironic how the left screams that healthcare (reproductive, specifically) should be a conversation between an individual and their doctor, yet raises no question when the IRS becomes involved.But back to your point, it is frightening to think that the unscrupulous IRS employees/thugs will soon have access to our medical data.

Ironic how the left screams that healthcare (reproductive, specifically) should be a conversation between an individual and their doctor, yet raises no question when the IRS becomes involved.But back to your point, it is frightening to think that the unscrupulous IRS employees/thugs will soon have access to our medical data.

Dear. God. Why.

Thanks for posting these -- I'm always looking for articles outside of NRO or Breitbart to share.

And yes, DocJay, I think that a wood chipper is a great idea.

While I understand why we should be concerned about the effect of the teacher's words on Elizabeth Smart's self worth after her rape, it seems ludicrous to me that we should hold abstinence only education to blame (the argument per the liberal websites, not Elizabeth Smart). If we are to accept this logic, does a prostitute then feel less ashamed if she is raped? Would Elizabeth really have escaped if her teacher had instead taught her how to use a condom? Should we now advocate that all girls be de-flowered at a young age just so that they won't suffer the mental trauma of being raped? Obviously I am exaggerating, but to me her teachers words are of far less importance to the psychological effect of the rape then, you know, the rape itself.

We should start a therapy group for all of us Ricochetti who thought oxygen was the most prevalent gas.

It's hard to choose just one, but this one is quick.

Setting: Freshman orientation at a southern university

Me: "Hi, I'm Kate"

Chubby Boy: "Hi, I'm Parker" (with thick Georgia accent)

Me: "Very nice to meet you, Porker"

Mortifying.

As one of those "young ladies with sad eyes" (and I apologize for my fellow auditors) I couldn't agree with you more. Internal control testing is the most tedious, mind-blowingly pointless exercise I can imagine. I'm fortunate enough that I haven't had to participate in a SAS 70 audit yet, but I know it's only a matter of time.

SOX and DFA are two prime examples of why we need more business men and women in congress, and fewer lawyers!

What's funny about that list is that they aren't companies that I'd necessarily consider hippie. Whole Foods and Toms, sure, but why would anyone assume that New Balance or GoDaddy.com would be more liberal than any other? I'm going to chalk it up to the arrogance of Liberalism, but if anyone else has an explanation, I'll be interested to hear it.

According to RealityCheck.org, the right to abortion can be found in the Thirteenth Amendment's prohibition of slavery.

Professor Koppelman has previously argued, on the basis of Supreme Court precedent interpreting the Thirteenth Amendment’s prohibition of slavery and involuntary servitude to protect individual liberty and equality, that the government may not prohibit abortion. To do so would be to require physical service from a woman for the benefit of a fetus.

As Professor Roberts explains, “[w]e often envision the hallmark of slavery’s inhumanity as the slave picking cotton under the overseer’s lash.” However, “[a]s much as slaves’ forced labor, whites’ control of slave women’s wombs perpetrated many of slavery’s greatest atrocities.” The Thirteenth Amendment prohibits treating human beings as they were treated under antebellum slavery. The denial of reproductive autonomy is a brutal and under-recognized aspect of that treatment.

I think what it boils down to is that the Left wants to avoid individual responsibility, and will justify it by any means.

My siblings and I all loved Tintin too!

If you want to slip some educational content into their summer, I highly recommend any of Larry Gonick's books (well maybe not the Cartoon Guide to Sex). Probably too advanced for the 1st grader, although the cartoons may keep him entertained anyway, but I bet the 4th grader will love them.

This weekend I will be filing my taxes and filing the mountain of paperwork required for my CPA license. If that doesn't sound like fun, I don't know what does.

Then it will be back to retweeting every tweet of yours about #gosnell!

I've actually seen the Kristen Powers story linked on facebook several times today, which I found quite surprising.