It's hardly surprising that a school full of the douchiest basketball fans in the world like Duke would also lead the nation in grade inflation. I mean, when you have worse grade inflation than Harvard, you are really saying something. Do Duke students just get...
Author: Erik Loomis
Romney truly is running his campaign like American corporations have run the economy--deliver a failing product but pay the high-ranking officials obscene bonuses: Another set of expenditures is likely to.
I've mostly sat out the recent rehashing of the Nader Wars here. Like Rob and Scott, I have grown deeply critical of Ralph Nader and his 2000 presidential campaign. But.
I've read numerous articles this year on the potential unreliability of polling since so many people don't have land lines anymore. And given the demographic realities of the voters, I've wondered if the inability to include cell phones means Obama has a larger and statistically...
In 1967, Town and Country Magazine named Mittens one of its top 25 most eligible bachelors. Doesn't look as if that weekends at the White House prediction is looking too.
Lance Mannion for the win, with an assist from James Wolcott's tweet wanting the video of Romney giving the speech from Glengarry Glen Ross. I'm sorry, but Romney does not.
The story behind Jimmy Carter's grandson encouraging the taper of the Romney speech to release it is awesome. Basically, Jimmy Carter IV got sick of Romney saying bad things about his grandfather's handling of the Iran hostage crisis. Revenge is very sweet.
In a comment to Scott's post yesterday, Matt Yglesias said this about evaluation of the Chicago teachers. My point about unions favoring job security for their members per se is.
The scab officials did an utterly abysmal job in last weekend's NFL games. But nothing reached the extreme incompetence of last night's Denver-Atlanta game, and that doesn't even count the.
Rahm Emanuel is outraged. He thought he made a deal with Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers' Union, to end the teachers strike. But see, Rahm doesn't understand very much about unions. In a democratic union, the kind of union supposedly liberal commentators say...
Somewhat to my surprise this morning, I discovered that Conservapedia actually has an entry on the Pequot War. For you non-colonialists out there, the Pequot War was a war of.
Is Michael Bloomberg starring in a new version of 1984 on Broadway? If so, this would be a good poster for the play. What, you mean this is a serious.