The Waterglass

Those Droll English Professors

Check out this article from the UK’s Daily Telegraph:

An Oxford University professor has provoked outrage by rejecting an application from an Israeli PhD student purely because of his nationality.

Andrew Wilkie, the Nuffield professor of pathology and a fellow of Pembroke College, is under investigation after telling Amit Duvshani, [...]

Obsession

The Bleat is back! Thank God. And it’s chock-full of bleaty goodness like:

Some people are obsessed with thinking that we are obsessed. They think we spent our nights drenching our ids with the marinade of anti-communist paranoia, because we never confronted these things in the light of day. Never mind the headlines, the [...]

Another Place to Boycott

Read this excerpt, then try to guess the author, then follow the link and read the whole thing:

Abercrombie & Fitch, a chain that some say markets a “classic American look,” faces a lawsuit, filed by a group of “civil rights organizations,” aided by a law firm that specializes in “anti-discrimination [...]

Raiders of the Not-Lost-After-All Ark

I know it’s all blown over, which is why I’m bringing it up now: the “rape of the Iraqi museum” fiasco. Remember that? It had been initially reported that over 170,000 objects had been stolen, but we learned later that maybe 33 or so were actually taken. David Aaronovitch of [...]

We’re with You, James

Send some good thoughts down Minnesota-way to James Lileks:

Other adages for today: when life hands you lemons, head down the hall, hide in the closet of your enemy, wait until they get a papercut, then leap out shouting BANZAI and crush the lemon in your hand right over the papercut. [...]

Those Whild and Whacky French

Here’s an article from Time.com:

As Secretary Of State Colin Powell traveled to the Middle East last weekend to try to get President Bush’s road map back on track, U.S. frustrations with the stalled peace efforts have begun to focus on a familiar target: France. State Department and White House [...]

I Didn’t Know B.D. Wong Was Gay

Jonah Goldberg talks about mainstreaming homosexuality:

After repeated protests from gay groups in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hollywood stopped casting gays and lesbians as villains (think of “No Way Out” and “Basic Instinct”). By the end of the ’90s, gays could be found all over movies [...]