Forgotten American blogging returns.
Author: Robert Farley
It seems that the fortune cookie originated in late 19th century Japan:There is one place where fortune cookies are conspicuously absent: China.Now a researcher in Japan believes she can explain.
I trust that Yglesias is employing what the kids these days call "sarcasm"...For instance, assaults increase by about 9% when a community hosts a college football game, vandalism increases by.
David Petraeus and I wear the same running shoes, but the similarities end there. Runner's World, via Danger Room:Today, he arrives for his workout at precisely 6:30 a.m., ready to hit the road in his New Balance 992s and an Army T-shirt. The subject quickly...
Sonar kills whales, but the Navy wants to use sonar in exercises to prove strike group readiness, because sonar also (indirectly) kills submarines. Some discussion of this came up last.
Seems to me to be good news.
Wow."I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution," Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. "But I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And...
Barack Obama now says that his favorite Wire character is Omar. Given that Obama also has connections with Brother Mouzone, doesn't the true structure of the Baltimore drug trade become.
With the economy drifting towards recession and the Wire beginning to suck, true disaster looms. Noah Shachtman:When our robotic overlords finally do take over, there's a decent chance they'll do.
Charli Carpenter at Duck:My quote, attributed to Edmund Burke, read "the only thing necessary for the persistence of evil is for good people to do nothing." It is commonly quoted by human rights scholars and activists to caution against the bystander effect.Porter’s essay, replete with...
To follow up a bit on what I wrote at TAPPED, there's some utility in thinking about this point:David [Mutimer], on the other hand, gave a thought provoking but untitled.
Hilzoy makes the case against Clinton. I substantially agree, both on policies and politics, but I'm not certain about this:In this context, I think that nominating Hillary Clinton would be.