November 18th, 2005
I’ve often asked myself, Wouldn’t it be easier if the University of Minnesota published a guide to women faculty members so that I wouldn’t have to spend hours sifting through directories in search of scholarly female opinion?
As luck would have it, I received in the mail today just that from the U of M’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, a “Women, Law, and Public Policy Faculty and Staff Directory.” As their cover letter explains, “We know how frustrating it can be to find us at times, as we are dispersed throughout the University…. After years of steady, incremental progress, recent studies show that women’s voices in the media have become even more scarce in the last two years.”
Now there’s no denying these women are experts in their field. But there’s one woman whose voice I’d be particularly interested in hearing. She can be found on page 12 of the directory. She goes by the name of Jeffrey L. Edleson, Professor of Social Work. It is unfortunate Ms. Edleson has a slight facial hair problem, as seen in her photo. But I give her much credit for not succumbing to social pressures and waxing it off. Good for her!
0 commentsInsight Magazine
November 18th, 2005
Insight Magazine, which has launched a thousand careers, has just relaunched. The new version looks pretty great.
0 commentsNovember 18th, 2005
Wednesday’s Onion is a classic. The paper reports on a “new” reality show on Animal Planet called The Zoo, “in which members of a diverse, all-animal cast square off in a single 3,200-square-foot home in the San Fernando Valley.”
Reports the show’s creator: “We see an immediate alliance develop between the lowland gorilla and the bison, who work together to smash a hole through a wall.”
Also: “Animal Planet sources say the house, which is equipped with the latest in modern convenience, including a hot tub, a flat-screen TV, and a pool table, quickly fills with feces during the premiere episode.”
If only…
0 commentsJesse Jackson on T.O.
November 18th, 2005
Vic has crafted the funniest parody ever. For reals.
If you don’t follow this link, you’ll regret it for the rest of your life.
0 commentsOSM
November 18th, 2005
Ann Althouse has a rundown of the launch of the Company Formerly Known as Pajamas Media. I for one welcome our new blogging overlords.
Bonus: Will OSM have to come up with their own “WWE”?
0 commentsKeep Matus Away from Sharp Objects
November 18th, 2005
Technology continues its enslavement of mankind with this evil device, the Capton Wireless Liquor Monitoring System:
Capton’s Beverage Tracker system is an innovative liquor monitoring system that helps bar owners increase their liquor profits by providing real-time wireless liquor consumption data to help prevent against shrinkage. Our system help you identify over-pours and drink giveaways. Think of it as an electronic journal of everything that happens within your bar operations. Remember, you can’t manage what you can’t measure!
Read: No more heavy-pouring bartenders or rounds on the house. Just one more example of how the internet is ruining the world.
0 commentsThe New iTunes?
November 17th, 2005
If iTunes really does change pricing models it will be a big deal, with all sorts of unintended consequences, no?
0 commentsIndiana Jones and the Missing Pentagon Papers
November 17th, 2005
Rick Moran has an excellent post connecting the dots with Steve Hayes and Bill Tierney:
0 commentsApparently, despite these documents political importance to the Administration’s efforts to justify the Iraqi liberation in the eyes of the world and American citizens, a pitifully small number of analysts have been assigned to wade through this mish mash of documentation in order to obtain whatever nuggets of useful information that can be gleaned from their contents.
What’s even worse is that the intelligence agencies in charge of this effort have a vested interest in seeing that no information comes to light that contradicts their conclusion that Iraq destroyed its WMD program following the first Gulf War.
