Georges Méliès, The Doctor and the Monkey, 1900
...from an unaccredited for-profit college. TYRANNY!
The Texas Republic was really terrible at war. But the idea of Texas being born from military achievement is variously true and also blown out of all proportion to reality..
Before tomorrow's oral arguments,let me note again that people interested in the latest ad hoc legal challenge to the ACA should definitely look at Marty Lederman's series of posts, helpfully collected here. We've already discussed one of his crucial points, namely that there is no contraception...
The Arizona pastor who infamously told his parishioners to pray for Obama's death doesn't want to hear a damn thing out of you ladies, so just you shut up already.
The burning of Asian forests, particularly but not exclusively in Indonesia, continues unabated. This is usually reported on for the public health aspects of it since the smoke from Sumatra.
Happy 25th Anniversary to the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Those were some good times. What did biologists discover from it? That the oil industry is horrible for wildlife: Scientists had traditionally believed that oil basically had to cover an animal or embryo to hurt it. But...
March is typically my busiest month, as I always have papers to furiously finish at the last minute for one, often two conferences in the US. This year is no.
Twitter Fight Club has begun. Here's a helpful FAQ. My opponent in the first round is @drunkenpredator, a hilariously inebriated killer robot. Follow the "action" here. This graphic hardly understates.
This is a chilling account of the women beaten and in one case killed because the son of a celebrity was continually let off the hook, including by at least two judges who winked at serious cases of domestic abuse: JARED REMY HAD GLIDED THROUGH his...
SEK walks to the checkout line and asks the cashier if she can grab him a bottle of SKYY, because in Louisiana the alcohol is kept in a different, special,.
This Times op-ed on why people born in certain counties dominate Wikipedia entries spends a lot of words to miss the obvious answer. An excerpt: The first striking fact in.