In addition to the direct misery, why it's so important in the medium- and long-term as well: Close your eyes and picture the scariest thing you can think of. Maybe it's a giant spider or a giant Stay Puft marshmellow man or something that's not...
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And now I know exactly what mistakes not to make when I pull it off! (In all seriousness, that's probably the most engagingly written and outright entertaining article about scholarly.
Much more on Rhee's tenure in DC and the cheating scandal she knew about and buried from John Merrow. Rhee was completely unqualified to run a school system but certainly.
So, putting armed policemen in schools is pretty much the best idea ever. I mean, I assume that when they're not dealing with exceptionally rare school shootings I assume they just kinda mind their own business, and would never try to justify their existence by...
Frank Gaffney is working his racist magic in Oklahoma, convincing the Oklahoma legislature (a willing group no doubt) to pass an anti-Sharia law by enormous margins, thus protecting the good.
I'm all for historians entering public debates. I am less enthused when they advocate utterly terrible ideas in major publications, such as University of Texas historian Jeremi Suri, who calls.
In discussing one legend, Jackie Robinson, the writer Roger Angell reminds us what a legend he is as well, whether writing about baseball or his life.
Conor Friedersdorf is the latest to ask why there isn't more coverage of the Gosnell case. As Irin Carmon points out, there is a very good answer to this question..
I'm genuinely fond of Gail Simone's work—both in comics and combative internet forums—and I fully support what she says about the addition of a transwoman to the cast of Batgirl:.
Do you know what's funny? Greg Gutfeld informs me that this is "the funniest thing [he's] ever seen in his entire life": He must have had a sad little life, because there's nothing funny about an old white woman who learned to do the rapping...
A funny one.
Tom Scocca draws our attention to some absolutely shocking revelations that a study commissioned by a winger academic group uncovered when investigating the Maoists at Bowdoin College. Among the terrifying.