Really? 4/12/14 – Comcast sponsors a Senate committee; Schools that don’t teach; The GOP’s cheap talk; More sex in LA; Spreading the wealth in college sports; Town names; Huckabee dribbles on his shirt.

How money free speech works in Congress.

This week the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first hearing on the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger . Every single Senator on the Committee has taken money from Comcast.

Move along – nothing to see here.

If you are not sure what the answer is, just write “God”.

Science test at a South Carolina Christian school.

I wish I could report this was a hoax, but Snopes has it rated as probably true.

Impeach, Impeach, Impeach.

The IRS’s Lois Lerner takes “the fifth”  and there is muttering of contempt. The President takes a bite of his omelet and a constitutional crisis is sparked. AG Eric Holder isn’t dragging the right people to court and Ted Cruz is waving the impeachment flag.

Benghazi, Fast and Furious, so much macho talk. If there is real malfeasance, let the GOP take action. But if they choose to do nothing, then will they please shut up.

Heaven forbid that the administration actually do something illegal. Any GOP protest will be greeted with – “here they go again”.

Was the “kissing Congressman’s” role model another Louisiana politician?

“I’m David Vitter, and I know nothing”.

Man of God, father-of-five, family-guy, Rep. Vance McCallister (R-LA) was video taped  kissing a staffer. Cries for his resignation resound from the state’s Governor, Bobby Jindal. “Congressman McAllister’s behavior is an embarrassment, and he should resign.”.

They ring out from the state party. “Mr. McAllister’s extreme hypocrisy is an example of why ordinary people are fed up with politics. A breach of trust of this magnitude can only be rectified by an immediate resignation”.

But the state’s junior Senator is silent on the subject. Perhaps because David Vitter didn’t just kiss – he paid for the whole ugliness. Again and again. In Louisiana and in DC. This fan of commercial lovemaking – famous as a name in the DC Madam’s “little black book” – has demurred from comment. Let it be said that at least he can keep his lips zipped

Pay, you don’t need no stinking pay.

The Northwestern University football team won the right to be considered employees – at least in the eyes of the NLRB – putting them and other college athletes in position to demand some of the billions that flow to university athletic departments.

Sixty-four percent of Americans believe that is only fair. Which begs the question, who are the 32% who don’t think that is fair? Surely they are not under the illusion that big time men’s college football and basketball are academic endeavors.

What’s in a name?

After 600 hundred years a Spanish town contemplates a name change, feeling perhaps that Castrillo Matajudios or Castrillo “Kill Jews” may be sending a bad message.

Celebrating North Korea’s vaunted freedoms.

Mike Huckabee suggested that there is “more freedom in North Korea sometimes than there is in the United States”.
It is unclear whether he was referring to North Korean freedom of speech, freedom of religion, or freedom to make an ass of yourself.