Very interesting.
Month: February 2013
Quite a contest for today’s craziest person. Here’s three nominees: 1. Gun Owners of America president Larry Pratt: Pratt predicted that President Obama may begin confiscating guns in orde
Hmm, I’d have to say that if the hot new young Republican position is to oppose (female) orgasms, this is excellent news for Democrats. A colleague at Allegheny notes that the talk taking the hi
It’s Oklahoma, for its bill that would ban teachers from failing students if they turned in homework in biology or other classes that pushed creationist ideology. I suspect if I start doing this every day, Oklahoma is going to win Crazy State a lot of days.
It is 1 p.m. SEK will be spending the next five hours in his office helping STUDENTS revise their essays. At no point will there not be a line of STUDENTS outside his door. STUDENT #1: I have a class
Shorter House Republicans: we will reluctantly agree to a bill to combat violence against women so long as it does nothing to help gays and lesbians.
All, Have received word from several people that we’re getting an unresponsive script warning in FF. We’re working on it. The Management
This Chris Cillizza produced list at the Washington Post of the most underrated and overrated presidents is good for a laugh because it so reflects Beltway priorities. I know that these choices were s
Dave Weigel speculates that the threat posed to statutory limits on campaign contributions by the Supreme Court’s decision to hear a constitutional challenge to aggregate contribution limits is
Ron Fournier wins the 2013 David Broder award for his column arguing “sure, Republicans are nuts. But why won’t President Obama cave to their wishes to avoid the sequester? Also, we need to destroy social programs to cut deficits, a political action absolutely vital even though no one outside of the Beltway supports it.”
Steven Brill of The American Lawyer and CourtTV fame has a very long story in the new issue of Time on some of the more absurd financial dysfunctions of The Best Health Care System in the World(tm). I
I saw Gloria Steniem speak at Skidmore yesterday. (Oddly, in violation of the Sacred Principles of Academic Balance there was not an additional speaker who came on to oppose gender equity. Perha