Which perfectly sums up the lunacy of big time collegiate sports in the US. Most of us know the story now, and it appears that plenty of administrators at Rutgers knew the full story in late November. An outside report was commissioned, but not to determine whether or not the coach and his methods represented […]
Month: April 2013
Get your damned gubmit out of Curt Schilling’s Galtian entrepreneurship! Providence, R.I. game developer 38 Studios knew it was in dire straits before it moved the company from Massachusetts to
Anytime a major newspaper discusses historiographical trends, it’s worth noting. That it’s about the rise of the history of capitalism as a field is more notable. In my opinion, this field
Pierce pretty much sums up my feelings about Obama’s clear support for the Keystone XL pipeline and the broader failure of this nation to do anything at all about climate change: This is the argument we get from the oil companies, the extraction industries, and all the politicians they have sublet over the past 40 […]
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In lieu of memorializing Roger Ebert myself, I thought I’d instead collect comments about his death that would’ve made him smile. Like this one: Ironic that he had a “gift”( hi
There is a reasonable response to complaints about the inclusion of a bad Social Security policy in Obama’s budget proposal: namely, it comes with a condition (higher upper-class taxes) that Republicans clearly won’t accept. And this is, in fact, true! So what’s the problem? Yglesias explains: The White House is frustrated by the fact that […]
On March 30th, The Economist published “Climate science: A sensitive matter,” in which James Hansen, formerly of NASA, noted that “the five-year mean global temperature has been flat
See Krugman, Kuttner, Chait, Digby. To reiterate the obvious, there’s no defense for this — it’s bad on the merits and and it’s bad politics, and whether the proposal represe
On the question of whether Clinton can be forgiven for signing DOMA, I think Somerby is mostly right. This is something Erik and I have been through many times, but the idea that progressive change comes from benevolent daddies in the White House taking lonely stands of principle is a bizarre and ahistorical idea. Presidents […]
MJ reports new Pew Research data showing that 52% of Americans support the legalization of marijuana, against 45% opposed, which fits with the recent initiative success in Washington and Colorado (mor
What Amanda said: President Obama, despite having a mostly feminist policy record, occasionally screws it up on a personal level. Yesterday, this side of him peeked out when he called California’