Hey, I'm a long-time Doug Flutie fan too. So before anybody in our comments section compares Tim Tebow to Flutie again, there should be evidence that he's better than JaMarcus Russell first.
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This story in the Economist does a good job of capturing the broad outlines of a crisis that's been building in higher education for a generation now: that is, ever.
I remember the first time I tried barleywine. I was really unusually expressive that night...
As the world's population reaches 7 billion sometime today, it's worth remembering that while overpopulation is an important environmental issue that needs addressing, it is a vastly lesser problem that the consumption of the planet's resources by the wealthy. I don't know if there's any...
The Washington Post can always be counted on to be leading the charge.
I'm not going to say, exactly, that this story affects Cain's chances of getting the nomination. I think this changes them from zero to zero. But it certainly doesn't help.
Mariah Blake's article about Tom Petters is fascinating stuff. Petters used a Ponzi scheme funded largely by hedge funds, investors known to Petters and his associates through Christian groups, and the purchase of failing legitimate businesses to finance the classic lifestyle of the conservative wealthy-and-tasteless...
Speaking of things that rarely end well... ...as a couple commenters have pointed out, I agree that there's one flaw in John's generally astute analysis. Looking only at final vote.
The death of Howard Wolpe, the congressman from Michigan who sponsored bills in the 80s to impose sanctions on the apartheid regime in South Africa should remind us that Ronald.
Someone is trying to get in good with our robot overloads by developing robot cats they can pet.
This is, obviously, appalling. See Patrick Nielson Hayden and Ta-Nehisi Coates. It's possible, of course, that some prosecutions of rank-and-file cops for ticket-fixing can be plausibly described as less than.
When Lieberman, Lindsay, and St. McCain get together and develop detainee policy, I want to run screaming in the other direction. The ultimate double breasted trench coat and ladies winter.