There’s a little-covered kerfuffle happening over at Duke University’s Divinity School. Rod Dreher, over at his blog on the American Conservative, is performing his usual insightful and careful coverage of the matter. Faculty member Paul Griffiths had enough of the usual diversity drivel that is the mainstay at academic, and, for that matter, most commercial institutions.
It started when fellow faculty member Portier-Young circulated a boiler-plate memo to the Divinity faculty, urging their participation in a “Racial Equity Institute Phase I Training” session. Professor Griffiths, politely, but firmly, urged his fellow faculty; “I exhort you not to attend this training. Don’t lay waste your time by doing so. It’ll be, I predict with confidence, intellectually flaccid: there’ll be bromides, clichés, and amen-corner rah-rahs in plenty.”
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I should write a technical post on the emerging post-Shuttle age of manned space flight, but I’ll leave that for Rand Simberg, James Gawron(?), John Walker, and the others who are more knowledgeable. Instead, I’m going to bring up a NASA language peeve: The tendency to misrepresent the meaning of “man” and “manned.”
“I got married “old school” — to a woman.” 
Monday, Dec. 12 was the six-month anniversary of the Pulse nightclub attacks, where 49 people were killed and at least 68 were injured; 37 of those injured were hospitalized. It was a horrific event, shocking all of us who live in the surrounding areas. The Orlando Sentinel covered the story for several months, often printing the story several times a week with the latest information. The outpouring of sympathy and condolences continued during that time regarding the loss of life, to the surviving victims, and to the families and friends who were left behind. A fund of $2.9 million was raised for the families of victims and for those who survived.
The Right is currently embroiled in a major struggle over the bounds of acceptable speech and needed push-back in the political and cultural realms. One of the major perks of Trump is that he refuses to be held to the Left’s speech codes. However, his off-the-cuff style also exposes his crassness and undisciplined vitriol, which turn-off people who might otherwise listen to what he has to say. 
The feminist reaction to sexual harassment has ended with 
The neurons that contain the names Milo Yiannopoulos (the conservative bon vivant/twitter troll) and Paul Johnson (the historian) are well-spaced in my brain but, this morning, I was amazed to discover a new synapse connecting them. The connection, as some of you may have guessed, has to do with political correctness and the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee. Both men are, rightly, avowed enemies of the former and, interestingly, supporters of the latter.
My adopted state (one can never be a true Arizonan unless native born) has gone and done it again. This time it’s not about concealed carry — No permit? No problem! — immigration (we