Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg summarize the problems with journalists writing history: We have to fight mediocrity as well as plagiarism – the two are more closely related than you realize. Journalists doing history tend to be superficial and formulaic. To the historian’s mind, they...
Month: August 2012
Is zero low enough?
I'm tempted to say that Pareene should have submitted this to Politico or Fred Hiatt as a kind of Sokal Hoax. But what makes it brilliant satire is that once.
For now anyway. A flash poll in Missouri showed that despite Todd Akin's insane statements about rape, he still leads Claire McCaskill 45-44, according to a poll by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic pollster. That's aligns with similar numbers from May. It could be that...
On this date in 1831, Nat Turner, a slave in Southhampton County, Virginia, led the largest slave revolt in the history of the United States, killing 60 white people before.
This is the greatest weather report in history: Onion Weather Center: Arizona Heatwave Forces Temporary Suspension Of Racial Profiling The best part is when they hope for tornadoes to destroy.
I've just now finally caught up with Breaking Bad, which I just started watching last week.** Amazing how a show about meth has the same effect on its viewers as its subject does on its victims. But as I start to catch up on the...
Todd Akin wishes to clarify that he doesn't have the appalling views he expressed yesterday. Rather, he has the appalling views the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United.
Am I the only one who finds the lesser known billionaire Koch Brother Bill Koch even creepier than the pair trying to buy the 2012 election? KEBLER PASS —There's a.
Republicans are really on top of their game today: Why do Ohio Republicans suddenly feel so strongly about limiting early voting hours in Democratic counties? Franklin County (Columbus) GOP Chair Doug Preisse gave a surprisingly blunt answer to the Columbus Dispatch on Sunday: “I guess...
John Markoff's Times feature from yesterday on robots replacing human labor left me deeply depressed. Increased advances in robot technology has begun to pay dividends for corporations who can replace.
Partly in response to Richard Kahlenberg, I argue that the Obama administration was right to defend the consideration of race in university admissions in its UT Austin brief: Even if.