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It’s a Family Affair

Donald Douglas and Stacy McCain have all the sordid details on the Palin-hating, HuffPosting, Obama-supporting, ("allegedly") daughter-diddling Columbia Professor of Economics, David Epstein, that you could ever care to read. It appears that his wife, Sharyn "But Not That Much Sharin'" O'Halloran, per Stacy the "chairwoman of the executive committee of the Columbia University Senate and a tenured professor," has split from her husband following her discovery that he had been boinking and exchanging naughty text messages with their daughter during the period 2006-09. The daughter is now 24 years old, so it's not a question of statutory rape, but apparently the benighted legislators of New York State continue to believe that incest ought still be outlawed, whether consensual or not, so he could end up with a prison sentence of as long as four years.

Naturally, some of his HuffPo colleagues and commenters wonder what the fuss is all about. If he was turned in by his wife, as Stacy surmises, then it's a sad commentary on the narrow-mindedness of Columbia University professors that the Chairwoman of the Executive Committee should over-react in such a manner that it makes her look so . . . bourgeois. Columbia likewise opens itself to charges of primitive taboo-mongering by publicizing that he's been suspended from teaching duties pending various investigations.

I'm not aware that Columbia graduate Meggie Mac has spoken to this overblown kerfuffle, but if she does, I'll be sure to let you know.

Meanwhile, I've written on Pigford over at RightNetwork, and I have a few questions regarding who made certain calls at the DoJ. I've put in a request for comment to J. Christian Adams, so I'll keep you updated if he responds. The lovely and talented Dana Loesch has the latest on the scandal the MSM won't touch.

Yeah, yeah, I know: from contrails to entrails without using the clutch. It's a bumpy ride.

And it's certainly not Stacy or Donald's fault, but it's a sad commentary that this is a hot topic over at Memeorandum, but the Pigford parables are not.

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