The UK organization Sense About Science has released its annual list of moronic celebrity health and diet endorsements. The roster of honorees is somewhat Anglocentric; deserving Americans like the galactically irresponsible Jenny McCarthy and shepherdess of woo Oprah Winfrey are nowhere to be found, though...
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"It's gonna be the 2010s, Mom. Aren't we supposed to be at war with the machines by now?" Um... (more…)
can be found over at UK Polling Report. They're insightful, comprehensive, and informative reviews of 2010 and previews of 2011 of the Tories, the Liberal Democrats, and Labour. Not surprisingly,.
In fairness, when you've already been the keynote speaker for whatever they were calling Pajamas Media at the time,your journalistic credibility can't really reach a lower point.
Shorter Tom Maguire: "I can't believe Paul Krugman's claims that 'deficit hawk' conservatives have become hypocrites and frauds who support deficit-exploding upper-class tax cuts, even as the oppose modest assistance.
According to one local announcer for the Houston Rockets, playing the Miami Heat is difficult because that There are just too many holes in too many dikes and not nearly.
Shorter Jennifer Rubin: "I am absolutely outraged that, following systematic Republican obstruction of executive branch nominees, President Obama has used his legal recess appointment powers to appoint people Sam Brownback and Jeff Sessions would not appoint if they were president. What an outrage!"
Parag Khanna has an interesting essay in the Financial Times. You need a subscription to read it the whole thing, but a few important excerpts are below: Imagine a world.
"Home Run" might be a little premature, but at the least a stand-up triple of an appointment: Justice Sotomayor has completely dispelled the fear on the left that her background.
I'm recently "returned" to Oregon from a week + in Kitsapland, hanging out for five days with my partner's family, followed by an impromptu three-night stand with my fleet of cousins. The latter was a non-stop holiday gala with excellent food, political debate, and, oh...
For some reason this reminds me of John McKay's comment immediately after he had coached Tampa Bay to one in a string of 26 straight losses, and he was asked.
On the road home from South Carolina I posted notice of Laura Sjoberg's critique of militarized masculinity in her analysis of DADT-repeal discourse. Now that I'm settled in, I've realized.