The Michael LaCour affair reminds me that I know of several flat-out crazy and/or evil people who have managed to make it big in the academic world. Or maybe this is just an observation about the world in general. In any case academia seems to...
Month: May 2015
Patakimentum! In fairness, Pataki was able to get elected governor and didn't nearly destroy a prominent corporation, so I guess as long as Fiornia remains in the race he can't.
Megan McArdle knows she wants the Supreme Court to gut the ACA. But like many ACA troofers she is not entirely sure which particular version she wants to go with..
Scott Walker has something cool for the ladies: mandatory sexual assault for those seeking abortions! During the interview with conservative radio host Dana Loesch, Walker defended a bill he’d signed in 2013 that required women get the ultrasounds. “The thing about that, the media tried...
I mentioned this in the previous post, but I figure it's worth its own. At this weekend's Dallas Comic Con, I'll be hosting the panel with Haruo Nakajima, Kenpachiro Satsuma, Tsutomu.
Steven and I apologize for those awaiting it, but if you've turned on the news and know where I live, you can probably understand why it's been difficult for me.
1200 dead workers building World Cup projects in Qatar so far. This compares to just a handful of workers dying for other major sporting events in recent years, even in relatively poor nations like Brazil, China, and South Africa. Note that we are 7 years...
This has been a longstanding hobbyhorse for Loomis, too, but L.A. Kauffman is very much making sense here: If the forty-year persistence of consensus has been a matter of faith,.
Good for the Cornhusker State: Nebraska became the first conservative state in more than 40 years to abolish the death penalty on Wednesday when lawmakers boldly voted 30-19 to override.
Oh my: In that section, he lists as one of his awards: "Emerging Instructor Award, UCLA Office of Instructional Development, 2013-2014. One of three UCLA graduate student instructors selected for excellence in their first year of teaching" (formatting his). But a staffer in the office...
Some sage advice to rural people visiting Chicago, 1888
One thing that many people "know" about the 1964 Republican presidential nomination is that Nelson Rockefeller lost, despite being a frontrunner, because of his marriage to the late Happy Murphy..