Prof. Brad Deling has an excellent post on a particular type of rich person rage, i.e. "$400,000 a year isn't really that much money, so any increase in marginal tax rates is outrageous." In this case the argument seems to be that if you don't...
Month: September 2010
This was sweeter than sweet. Which is sweet. 2. Notre Dame Another 1-2 start from the team Charlie Weis restored as a national power. However, both of their losses have.
Wow.
Essentially all quotes -- whether of text or video excerpts or whatever -- are literally "out of context." If you're going to try to imply that a quotation or excerpt is "out of context" in the sense of being misleading or unrepresentative, however, you actually...
I receive more than a few e-mails that run roughly as follows: Sundays are a little less special without your Sunday focused posts, but the twins (and time spent on.
I've been wondering when the Locke/Demosthenes effect would manifest itself through the faux political rivalry of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Could this be their moment? Stewart on the need.
With the academic semester upon us, a rash of news articles about classroom learning have hit the press. First, the NY Times reviews recent reviews of research to remind us that some of what we know about how we learn is wrong. For example, it...
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It sure is lucky that David Brooks's apocryphal nameless liberal friends make their otherwise sound points with such specific, problematic details! The strawman-burning would be a lot harder otherwise. It's.
During the upcoming NFL labor negotiations, I'm either going to have to avoid reading much about it or be careful to watch my blood pressure. The journalists who cover all sports (with a few honorable exceptions) seem to seem their role during labor negotiations as...
The SSA has a nice site that lets you look up all sorts of statistical info on naming patterns. Among other things it allows one to predict that 70 years.
The only modification that I'd make to this argument is that the responsibility does not wholly lie with Mao Zedong. The Great Leap Forward had the early support of a.