Meet a Korean horse that plays dead in order to avoid being ridden. I am the Santa of this blog, I know. You are welcome.
Month: December 2015
A striking number of people are still assuming one or more of the following things: (1) Donald Trump either doesn’t want to be president or doesn’t believe he can win. Thus his campaign is
Ross Douthat. It’s worth noting that Douthat’s cherry-picking on the uninsured rate is even more egregious than Chait demonstrates. The already very impressive reductions in the rate of un
This group of right-wing Brazil politicians is thinking smartly and taking a page from the National Rifle Association by deciding that the only solution to their nation’s murder problems is allowing people to buy more guns. Of course, what this is really is about is scared wealthy people who don’t really feel much of the […]
Your (or your children’s) service trips, or voluntourism, basically do nothing to help the world’s poor and are essentially all about the people of the wealthy world feeling good about the
Like many cities, Albuquerque does not use common sense in downtown planning. Thus it has decided that this upgrade to its convention center is a good idea: And $5 million would go towards a retractab
Don’t vote, it just encourages the bastards. A saying that is highly beneficial to reactionary interests: Kentucky’s newly sworn-in Gov. Matt Bevin has issued a series of executive orders undoing much of his Democratic predecessor’s work in one fell swoop. Not only did Bevin strip the voting rights of some 140,000 former felons, he also […]
Yesterday, Hillary Clinton’s campaign posted a silly “7 Things Hillary Has in Common with Your Abuela” to appeal to Latinos. It was kind of pandering. So naturally a #NotMyAbuela Twi
It’s just so hard to be a dead Confederate today. No one loves you anymore. No one wants to name things after treasonous slaveholders or the northern politicians who facilitated their slave syst
Case Western Reserve is a well-regarded private university in Cleveland. It’s undergraduate school is highly-ranked among “national universities,” its medical school is a top research institution, its engineering school is considered excellent, etc. Case’s law school, by contrast, is merely respectable. The relevance of this is that it’s hard to argue that the law school […]
One has to ask that question given what’s happened in Tennessee. I am sure you are all familiar with this story by now: A 31-year-old Murfreesboro woman was arrested Wednesday and charged with a
The U.S. is now cracking down to some extent on the importation of lion trophies after the killing of Cecil earlier this year. It’s not going as far as some European nations which are banning th