almost too easy...

Tea Party Plans To Recruit More Coloreds This Fall | The Onion - America's Finest News Source:

CARSON CITY, NV—In an effort to promote diversity within their political base, national Tea Party leaders gathered today in Nevada's capital to announce their intention to embrace more coloreds in the lead-up to the 2010 midterm elections. "We're bringing new voices and perspectives into the movement every day, and the addition of some more coloreds is only the beginning," Tea Party spokesman Michael Kealey told reporters, adding that he was "excited to welcome Negroes into the fold." "The time has come for everyone, Orientals even, to take America back." Kealey went on to say that the inclusion of homos in the movement would be "out of the question," unless they were the normal kind.

yeah, that about covers it.

Candidate Unaware Constitution Provides For Separation Of Church, State | The Onion - America's Finest News Source | American Voices: In a debate with opponent Chris Coons, Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell intimated she was unaware that the First Amendment provides a constitutional basis for the separation of church and state. What do you think?

"This probably also explains why she then immediately yelled at reporters and told them they had no guaranteed right to print what she had just said."

frat boys abuse themselves again...

The Continuing Ethical Collapse of Our Elite Institutions: The Yale Rape Chant Edition : Mike the Mad Biologist:

So my first thought upon reading that a fraternity pledge ritual involved chanting in a public place "No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal" was "Frat boys are still assholes. Nice to see that some things remain constant." Then I read that this happened at Yale, and my next thought was, "I wonder which of these assholes, when he graduates, will be hired by J.P. Morgan." ("You're one of the anal rape guys? Congratulations, you're hired!")

[...comments on should they be expelled...]

At this point, inevitably, there will be a douchebag crying, "Political correctness! AAIIIEEE!!" No. "No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal" is not a political ideology or a philosophical perspective, it is a pathology. And, if acted upon, it is, of course, criminal. Yale has the advantage that it is not a public university, so it does not have to worry about First Amendment issues: it can suspend or expel anyone it wants.

If Yale has any sort of ethical standards--and given that our elite educational institutions are essentially finishing and technical schools for the Mandarin class, there is no reason believe that Yale does have such standards--they will come down hard on these 'men.'

Our elite institutions are failing us, and one reason, among several, is that our elites have never been trained in ethics; in fact, they receive subtle messages that unethical behavior will go unpunished (or even be rewarded).

Big Shitpile and the irresponsible parasitism of Wall Street did not arise in a vacuum.

bad history textbooks - they aren't just for Texas anymore...

Disputed Va. textbook wasn't reviewed by history experts:

The Virginia committee that approved a textbook that says thousands of African Americans fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War - a claim rejected by most historians - consisted of three elementary school teachers and no specialists in history, a state official said Thursday.

The Virginia Department of Education has long claimed that its textbooks are vetted by review committees "made up of content specialists, teachers and other qualified persons."

That didn't happen with "Our Virginia: Past and Present." Instead, the state chose three teachers to review the book, according to Charles Pyle, spokesman for the Virginia Department of Education.

The teachers ruled that the textbook was "accurate and unbiased," recommending it for distribution this fall to fourth-graders across the state.

Pyle said the state relies on paid volunteers to serve on its textbook review committees, and no content specialists agreed to serve on the fourth-grade social studies committee in 2009, when "Our Virginia" was being reviewed.