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...

Texas’ Pathetic War Record

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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...
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The End of the Asian Forests

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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...

Exxon Valdez

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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.

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Twitter Fight Club 2014

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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.
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