September 17, 2006

Is anyone surprised by this?

Posted by Jon Sanders at 11:34 PM

"Death of a President," which stirred controversy in the days ahead of the festival, took home the Fipresci prize, which is chosen by international critics. The film, a fictional documentary showing the assassination of President Bush, was noted by the jury "for the audacity with which it distorts reality to reveal a larger truth."

You gotta love that quote, too: distorts reality to reveal a larger truth. Just another example of leftist lying "for the common good" since there's "no abstract truth" anyway — all that fake but accurate, certain lies are good rot.

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Early admissions bite the dust

Posted by Mitch Kokai at 10:59 PM

Harvard's decision to drop its early admissions policy prompted U.S. News to look back at UNC-Chapel Hill's experience with the same decision:

In 2002, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill stopped its binding early decision program because of worries about the impact on who gets in. Harvard and Yale also dropped their binding early decision options, but the anticipated landslide of other colleges moving away from early admissions never happened. Meanwhile, UNC-Chapel Hill has seen no decline in the quality of its applicant pool. In fact, it has gotten better, according to Chancellor James Moeser. "We hope that more schools make the same decision about early admissions," Moeser says. "It's our responsibility to lead the way in reform and avoid the federal government stepping in." 

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Innovation is a wonderful thing

Posted by Mitch Kokai at 10:56 PM

Read this article, then imagine how government over-regulation stifles people like these. 

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'Fast Times': The Sequel

Posted by Mitch Kokai at 5:26 PM

A couple of decades after Cameron Crowe's undercover work led to the book and movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a fellow named Jeremy Iversen has conducted a similar experiment.

Growing up in Manhattan and graduating from Stanford University probably means Iversen isn't the best choice for assessing what's "normal" among high school kids, but his findings are still revealing. 

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