I thought the article about leap day was stupid, but today there’s this by Washington Post contributor Charlotte Allen:

I don’t mind recognizing and accepting that the women in history I admire most — Sappho, Hildegard of Bingen, Elizabeth I, George Eliot, Margaret Thatcher — were brilliant outliers.
The same goes for female fighter pilots, architects, tax [...]

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If you’re going to rig and election, it’s best to try and hide it. And if you’re not going to rig an election, then you shouldn’t
stop counting votes in a hotly-contested election:

Here at TPM, as we watched the rate of the reporting slow to halt on Saturday evening, we joked amongst ourselves that with [...]

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It’d be unfair of me to use Mississippi Republican State Senator John Read’s
bill to ban serving obese people in restaurants as an opportunity to snark about the conservative brand of paternalism. But I do think a hearty and laser-guided “go to hell” directed at the Senator is more than warranted.
Yes, he admits it’s a [...]

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I still haven’t moved everything over
from my old host, which means I have an open account with them.
I just got a nastygram from them telling me I owe $514.27, with $484.32 past due. The past due dates are all in the future. Most of them are repeated. Apparently, accounts receivable is so eager to [...]

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It seemed liberal bias against conservative values on campus had gotten so bad people were afraid for their lives at Princeton, until the student who was attacked admitted
fabricating the incident and writing the death-threats himself. Apparently, he claimed to have been assaulted by the
pro-condom lobby.
You know, when you have to start staging [...]

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