It's s a beautiful morning in Boulder, and later today I'm going to take a bus the 25 miles down the turnpike to Denver and Invesco Field, to hear Barack Obama accept his party's nomination for president, on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's...
Author: Paul Campos
2 PM Monday is when the GOP convention is scheduled to be kicking off, so this might possibly be taken as evidence that Mother Nature has a mordant sense of.
. . . when you're old enough to repay, but young enough to sell?I gather Alex Rodriguez was booed mercilessly last night for single-handedly destroying the Yanqui season. NYY seems.
Following up on Rob's post, if a public high school biology teacher teaches his or her students that there is no evidence for the existence of God (or, in what amounts to the same thing, that science provides no evidence for the existence of God...
. . . what was that?
Radley Balko points out that Biden's voting record on drug issues in particular and civil liberties in general is quite bad. (Edit: As a couple of commentators have noted, Biden's.
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...
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.