The state of the culture

Just love the breathlessly announced "research" stating the common-sense obvious:

If men and women at times seem to be from different planets, it may be because there are large differences in their personalities, a new study suggests.

What a rare and welcome display of common sense:

PHOENIX -- An administrative law judge ruled Tuesday that a Tucson school district's ethnic studies program violates state law, agreeing with the findings of Arizona's public schools chief.

Judge Lewis Kowal's ruling marked a defeat for the Tucson Unified School District, which appealed the findings issued in June by Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal.

Have you been getting feweer Christmas cards each year? It's a trend I've certainly noticed:

I was beginning to think PETA was on break since they've been so quiet this holiday season. Silly me:

Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch (who recently resigned in disgrace) was one of the Republicans who campaigned to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot to define marriage as the the union between a man and a woman. Then she was found to be in "an inappropriate relationship" with someone other than her husband. That resulted in this "apology"from "the gay and lesbian community of Minnesota":

Heading toward a momentous milestone:

We wouldn't know anything about that here, would we?

Considering all the talk of new technology that has passed through this site in recent years, this probably shouldn't have come as a big surprise, but I did not seen it coming:

Just when you think you're so jaded and world-weary that nothing that can happen in politics can possibly startle you anymore, along comes Tamara Scott, new Iowa co-chair of Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign:

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the Penn State scandal -- and there so many -- is this reaction by too many students: