I haven't developed any strong feelings about Obama's VP choice, but I sort of like this guy's style.It would have been better if he had pointed out McCain's idea of a housing crisis is not being able to remember how many houses your Sugar Mama...
Author: Paul Campos
One way of sorting out peoples' politics of law is to ask them if they find Harry Blackmun's opinion for the Court in Roe v. Wade or Flood v. Kuhn.
One of the strangest aspects of the moral panic over fat in our culture is the bizarre concept that having a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is "normal." It certainly.
Cheap Abe Simpson humor aside, one issue that the media seem to be treating with extreme delicacy so far is McCain's age. It of course is a legitimate concern, given that from a purely actuarial point of view, which doesn't take into account the special...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a presidential candidate's list of top ten favorite songs, published in a magazine aimed at self-identified young urban hipsters, will be an essentially.
But the front page of the NY Times sure looks like Chapter One of a Tom Clancy novel right now.It's just that under the present circumstances the idea of this.
I recently saw Eric Steel's 2006 documentary film The Bridge, about people who commit suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. Steel got permission from local authorities to set up cameras on public land that would allow him to film the bridge for an...
My friend Steve is an atmospheric scientist and a hardcore baseball fan. He's devised an ingenious simulation, in which he predicts the probable outcome of the remainder of a baseball.
"Some" would have seen it as a Secret Terrorist Gesture, while more sober-minded chin-scratchers would have taken it as evidence that Obama is too much of a foreigner to understand.
. . . donate Adam Dunn to Arizona for a petrified starfish and two pre-owned copies of The Transformed Man.Dunn is a free agent in six weeks, so if the Reds would have gotten two first round picks if they had kept him, assuming they...
My guess would be . . . Munich, 1938!What do I win?BTW it would be difficult to top this phrase for some sort of Neo-Con Unselfconscious Irony Award: "Fanatics aren’t.
I was an Edwards supporter early on, so I find this particularly disturbing. In an ideal world I agree this would be a private affair in every sense, but did.