You stay classy.
Month: November 2013
I know that if there were some sort of wingnut apex of stupidity, it wouldn’t really take the form of a sharp point; it’d be more like a longest plateau.
The Supreme Court granted cert in two of the specious legal challenges to the ACA's contraceptive mandate, and I'm not particularly optimistic. One point I want to emphasize is that.
Shorter Lambert: That Paul Krugman is such an unprincipled hack. Everyone knows that Hillary Clinton's health care reform plan is acceptable only when it's proposed by Hillary Clinton. And he's so ill-informed about American politics he doesn't understand that Joe Lieberman, Evan Bayh, Mary Landrieu,...
A couple of Wednesday morning conversation-starters... *The first thing I wanted to address is my embarrassing holes. This is a family blog, so, no, this has nothing to do with.
SEK'S NEIGHBOR: I heard you talking on the phone about some "doctor" you think is all-powerful. SEK: What? SEK'S NEIGHBOR: On your phone, you were telling someone about this "doctor".
For those of you who like long, detailed reports about the struggles of working people to earn a decent living in the United States, this report on home care workers is very much worth your while. An excerpt: In-home workers are more than 90 percent...
As these researchers point out, it absolutely makes sense to engage in a significant emissions reduction program, even if India and China are going to pump out as much into.
Julia Ioffe's article about Heritage Action is fascinating reading. As IB notes in comments, it's not that Heritage was ever non-hackish, but "[w]hat has changed, however, is the organization’s ability.
The peoples are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the launching of HMS Warspite. A quick review of Warspite's World War II fighting record confirms that the most common understanding of the role that battleships played in World War II is wrong, or at least incomplete....
This has been making the rounds and is worth a read: How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang? It's a slightly different take on the "academia as a dual labor market".
Shocking that Tom Coburn's report on the national parks would be nothing but a justification for slashing budgets, eliminating the Antiquities Act (one of America's best laws and one that.