WulfCry Weblog

My oldest son turned eight last year. That means he’s old enough for cub scouts. I learned a lot through scouting (though I rebelled against it at times because I was forced to go), and was hoping Connor would want to join. My sister was kind enough to take him to a […]

There is no such thing as reverse discrimination. It’s all discrimination.
Last year I volunteered as juror in a litigation clinic. The defendant was a black woman. Her counsel was also a black woman. During voir dire, plaintiff’s counsel asked if anyone had experienced discrimination. I looked around and noticed that […]

Law school has pretty much hammered into me that assertions need support, and every sentence needa a footnote. That isn’t such a bad thing, except that I tend to have little time to research / write on a topic, and ADD (combined with the use of different computers for different tasks) demands that I lose […]

I ran across this interesting article about education reform and candidates’ reluctance to address it on the campaign trail. As a largely conservative critique of both Democratic candidates and teacher’s unions, it predictably harps on teacher accountability. Not to downplay accountability–as a former teacher I have seen firsthand the typical product when there […]

. . . Solstice
Okay, so it looks like Summer Solstice, but a friend of mine brought up a very good point.
As a little background information, my family doesn’t celebrate Christmas. The reason is fairly simple: we are not Christian. But since Christmas was simply invented by Christians in an effort to retain […]