I understand everyone's shit's emotional right now. But I've got a three point plan that's going to fix everything. Number 1: Women are people and men's right movement types are the Taliban and ISIS...
Month: December 2014
I spent two glorious hours on Graphic Policy Radio last night ostensibly talking about NBC's Constantine, but as the title of this post indicates, we got a little digressive. You can.
On December 2, 1984, a gas leak in a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India killed somewhere between 3787 and 16,000 people. Perhaps the worst industrial disaster in world.
As Laura Helmuth explains, James Watson has always been a definitive case study in the perils of thinking that being an expert on one thing makes you an expert on everything: One of his earliest sins: Watson didn’t credit Rosalind Franklin, a chemist also working...
It must be said that Glenn Harlan Reynolds identifies a real problem in his column today -- namely, a lack of infrastructure spending and the resultant loss of working-class jobs..
My latest at the National Interest takes a look at Iran's anti-access systems: Iran’s anti-access systems have trailed those of Russia and China, but in some sense are more interesting than.
The "hands-up-don't shoot" gesture made by Rams players was going to lead to plenty of crackpottery. But Roy has found the funniest example, in the person of Mr. Rick Moran. The setup: What this very public display of ignorance may do to the team chemsitry...
As I mentioned over the holiday, I have a #Slatepitch in what is hopefully the non-pejorative sense about what actions the federal government should be taking even if they don't.
This is 2 months old but I am doubtful any of you are familiar with the story. I was not until yesterday. Rio Tinto, one of the world's largest mining.
The National Review wonders why the shooting of Michael Brown is getting disproportionate attention: “While I understand the people are concerned about the use of deadly force by the police, by far — about 50 to 1 — more blacks in St. Louis are killed...
Even today, government and industry proceed ahead with new technologies with nothing close to appropriate monitoring and testing to demonstrate its effects on people before they happen (see fracking for.
Analogy: What do you think of how he’s done? Here we are in the last two years of his presidency, and there’s a sense among his supporters of disappointment, that.