Hiltzik has another good piece, this time featuring maps of preventable diseases to show the impact of the anti-vaccination foolishness. The general outlines we know here since we have slammed on the anti-vaxxers many times. But I thought this was an important point we probably...
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If there's one thing the world needs, it's Martha Stewart's website telling people how to host punk rock parties. The comment section is really great here. A couple of weeks.
pic.twitter.com/noPUM5Nu3P— SexyEthicsJournalism (@vacuumslayer) October 24, 2014 Does this surprise anyone? It didn't surprise me in the least.
The results can be horrible: Two students are dead after one of them opened fire Friday morning in the Marysville-Pilchuck High School cafeteria before turning the gun on himself, according to law-enforcement sources. Police said four other people were wounded in the 10:45 a.m. shooting. Austin Joyner,...
Shorter Verbatim David Brooks: "The federal government should borrow money at current interest rates to build infrastructure, including better bus networks so workers can get to distant jobs. The fact.
Related to our discussion of Bartlett's story yesterday, Julia Azari has some interesting thoughts about how to think about Obama's ideology here and here. On voting rights, the GOP is.
My coworker, who is from East Africa, did not appreciate this image on the front page of USA Today.
Shorter John Roberts: "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. Unless racial discrimination can provide electoral assistance to.
Bruce Bartlett has an American Conservative cover story arguing that Obama is best described as a moderate Republican. It is...not persuasive. I'll leave aside the arguments about foreign policy, simply.
But I'm sure this is a total outlier: For 18 years, thousands of students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill took classes with no assigned reading or problem sets, with no weekly meetings, and with no faculty member involved. These classes had...
For those of you who enjoy my breakdown of films -- and in the spirit of Halloween -- I'm going to link to this Vox article that I had no input into.
Last night I needed to use up some chicken thighs and legs I had thawed. I was tired of the same crap I usually make and was really crazing some.