iClaremont Application Time?

Imagine taking your own tour of the Claremont Colleges on your iPhone

An alum sends this article about the iStanford application in and I think their inclination is right about applying it to the Claremont Colleges.

Here are the essential paragraphs:

Students can use iStanford to look up anyone in the campus directory and call or e-mail them with a tap on the phone; search for class schedules and e-mail professors; add and drop classes; find campus buildings without a paper map; and view game scores and schedules.

As smartphone mania spread across the nation's college campuses, more than 50 other schools adopted some form of smartphone campus navigation tool, modeled after Stanford's groundbreaking app. Most were created with the assistance of the team that developed iStanford and who now work for Blackboard.com, a teaching and learning company with an office in San Francisco.

Of course I think it would be a lot cooler if you could edit the content in much the same way you edit the Claremont McKenna webpage, which would make the content more dynamic.

The downside of an iClaremont application is that we'd get a lot more of the Steve Jobs cult interested in our campus, which I think is probably a net loss. I fear them. They control the internet.

My Fact Checking of Sapphire's Talk at the Athenaeum at Big Hollywood

Here's the post. It's my first for Big Hollywood. Here's the teaser:

The question and answer period quickly descended into the kind of self-flagellation that white liberals and modern academia have come to demand whenever we discuss the issue of race in America. It’s important to fact check these types of speakers because they allow so much misinformation and disharmony into our culture.

Ask yourself: Why is an author of a book designed to empower black people so wrong about their accomplishments and history? Could it be that she is profiting off of showing a slanted view?

Delahunt To Retire; Not Run For Re-Election

One more Massachusetts corrupto-crat bites the dust

I've been following Bill Delahunt's political career since I was a kid, and so it gives me a lot of pleasure to say that I was right in calling that he would not seek re-election in the fall. The Democrats are effectively left with no candidates in the running.

I wrote on him repeatedly here and over at Biggovernment.com, using my research skills to identify his weaknesses and sending out my reports to all of the potential candidates and the talk radio media. (One of these blog posts was linked to by none other than Hotair.com, a blog which actually encouraged me to start writing many years ago.)

The most recent blog post I wrote about him went live at Big Government yesterday. You can read it here.

Mark my words. Now that Ted Kennedy is dead, all of these seats will be up for grabs. Kennedy was a workhorse who powered the Massachusetts delegation to favor the causes he championed. With him gone, they are easily picked off, one at a time.

Expect more blog posts about the Massachusetts delegation going forward.