2008 kind of sucked, except for the obvious. Hopefully 2009 will be better. Stay safe tonight; we can't exactly afford to lose any regular readers...
Month: December 2008
What Dana said:The College Board has decided, against the wishes of many college admissions officials and advocates for low-income students, to institute "score choice," allowing students to withhold from colleges.
Alberto Gonzales:"What is it that I did that is so fundamentally wrong, that deserves this kind of response to my service?" he said during an interview Tuesday, offering his most.
My vacation has limited my blog reading, so I assume someone else has already discussed this. But since I haven't seen it much, I feel compelled to point out that missed in many discussions about the Burris appointment is the fact that the Senate is...
As an addendum to Matt's post, allow me to note from the frozen tundra of Alberta that the NHL offers us a good controlled experiment in the effectiveness of salary.
The answer is yes; it is Evil to cheer for Oklahoma State against Oregon. Against the Sooners, I'll allow, it wasn't so Evil. But against the Ducks, yes.Lessee.... two teams.
Each spring, I have to teach an introductory, interdisciplinary social science course with the banal title, "Reading and Writing in the Social Sciences." In years past, we've spent most of our time reading a selection of journal articles from the various disciplines in my program...
The PLAN is using its anti-piracy mission as an opportunity to learn:Stratfor, a private intelligence agency based in the United States, said in a report that a Chinese antipiracy patrol.
At least one Arab state can be expected to leap to Israel's defense:Of the various premises on which the U.S. invasion of Iraq was sold to the American people, one.
The site is apparently experiencing some kind of fatal error in Firefox; investigating. Seems to be okay in Explorer....problem seems to have resolved itself. Resume normal commenting activities.
Is the Air Force too casual about the threat posed by giant metal robots?As we speak, [Michael] Bay is shooting a sequel that has even more U.S. military hardware on.
The ante is rhetorically upped:“The goal of the operation is to topple Hamas,” Haim Ramon, the deputy to Ehud Olmert, the Prime Minister, said. It was the first time since.