Transmillennial

If there's a man who epitomizes so much that's wrong with the GOP, its Chris McDaniel, US Senator from Mississippi. (This was detected and tweeted by Andrew Kaczynski) Just like our worst students, McDaniel went looking for something to plagiarize, and found and used crap. One of the most entertaining things on twitter in the last month has been Kevin M Kruse, Professor of History at Princeton, schooling Dinesh D'Souza about the history of the Civil War. You can see Robert E Lee's house across the river from the steps of the US Capitol. You can get to Arlington National Cemetery on the Metro in 20 minutes, and then drag your overstuffed redneck GOP ass up the hill to the house. Behind the house are the slave quarters. Lee didn't 'oppose' slavery; he owned (and mistreated) slaves.

The quaintly named Campus Reform is yet another creature of a superannuated southern conservative, 78 year old Morton Blackwell. It bills itself as America's leading site for college news . God help us all if that's true. A recent example of what it calls its rigorous journalism standards and accuracy, objectivity, and public accountability . Item: Study finds conservatives 'right to be skeptical of scientists’ The first two paragraphs. A new study by University of Oxford researchers suggests conservatives are right to be skeptical of scientific establishments, given the history of “scholar activism” in fields like sociology and political science. Led by Nathan Confas, the study “Does Activism in the Social Sciences Explain Conservatives’ Distrust of Scientists?” can be found in the recent issue of the American Sociologist, a special edition dedicated to ideological diversity and conservative issues. First of all kids, a pro-tip. When you're touting a new ...