Well, the US avoided any hurricanes this year so maybe things are going OK in the weather world, right? Oh dear. Super Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines at 4am local.
How the NFL and its supporters have rallied around Richie Incognito over the hazing and threatening of Jonathan Martin is both disgusting and typical. Martin is essentially being drummed out.
All I hear from the brogressive crowd is that Rand Paul is a great defender of civil liberties unlike those evil Democrats. Let's remember Julian Assange after all: “The libertarian.
American Orientalism is alive in Southern California, where Coachella Valley High School has really outdone itself: The current mascot is based on an "angry Arab" design unveiled in the 1950s..
Great news, with one caveat, from the Department of Labor: The Labor Department wants companies to begin filing all workplace injury and illness reports electronically so they are available for.
In this interesting discussion of whether a group of students at Brown was justified in shouting down Ray Kelly, I think Katha Pollitt gets to the heart of the question:.
James Holmes has a good article on the DDG-1000 over at the National Interest: And that's the last major reason I see why the Zumwalt is relatively uncontroversial. No one.
Shorter Verbatim Richard Cohen: "I sometimes think I have spent years unlearning what I learned earlier in my life....slavery was not a benign institution in which mostly benevolent whites owned.
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