The academic conservative's Tasmanian equivalent

Listen: "Tiger Rag," from the Paul Whiteman Old Gold Hour, 6/11/29

Interesting that the Globe website hasn't noted Kerry allegations until their refutation today. Too busy with the Bush AWOL story that's had everyone talking. (Not.)

George Will has compiled a useful list of 28 questions to put to John Kerry * The Professorial Bias Watch is on at Andrew Sullivan's

Both preceding links via The Corner, where Jonathan Adler comments on his own experience as a conservative professor: It reminds of a first-year student who came up to me after class to tell me she was surprised to learn she had a right-wing professor. After all, she'd never had one before, and was assured Case's faculty was left of center. I left wondering whether she was afraid of me, or found me to be a curiosity, like some exotic animal at the zoo. (What's that strange creature? Why, that is an extremely rare species of academic, a conservative!)

Or the Ivy League equivalent of the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, which may be seen on video here pacing a cage in the Hobart zoo in the 1920s * Are there still some left?

More on the thylacine: To clone or not to clone? * And a view from behind of the Thylacine Yawn. (What an inspired blog name that would be.)

The Roy Chapman Andrews Society in Beloit, Wisc., recently celebrated the 120th anniversary of the birth of its namesake * The famed explorer is also recalled at the AMNH and at Strange Science * See a travel snap of a Mongolian giant taken by Andrews