Well, this is just embarrassing: A new ad for Senator Mitch McConnell’s reelection campaign hit YouTube today, and it features one of the most egregious errors that a politician can make in the state of Kentucky: glorifying Duke basketball. For about a second, the new ad...
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. With the exception of the coup at San Jacinto, Texas’s early military history was a series...
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.
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 wafts over the rest of southeast Asia. That's a huge problem, but of course there is...
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.
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 the magnitude of today's decision: Vote early. Vote often.
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.
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,.