Via Ailes, Mikey Kaus explains the rationale for his right-wing vanity campaign:“I believe in affirmative government and spending gobs of money,” he said. But, “I want to let people know that there are people that disagree with the party orthodoxy” on unions and amnesty-first immigration...
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Stanley Fish. Generally, it's good to wait until there's some evidence you're right before you do an "I told you so" column in defense of a stupid thesis, but...I guess.
The Economist has a damning article about son preference and female infanticide in East Asia, and the negative impacts on societies and regional stability as well as on girls. Heartening.
I can't wait until the new site goes live and I can tuck bulky material below the fold. In the meantime, if you're interested in the rhetorical chicanery of early Alan Moore (particularly in Miracleman), you can find an analysis of it here.
For those of you who don't frequent comic blogs but do read comics, you might like to know that Amazon suddenly decided to start selling Marvel's glossy, hard-bound, phone book-sized.
Someone ought to remind mainstream conservatives that the Jason "Molotov" Mitchell responsible for "O.T.P. (One Term President)" is the same guy who produced and starred in this video last month:You.
Peter Lipson has an interesting post about the unsurprising failures that naturopathic peddlers have faced in the wake of the Haitian catastrophe. Apparently, people wallowing in the aftermath of a natural disaster tend to be unimpressed by the results of cure-all vitamin C injections and...
Last November, Dave wrote:The Strokes are overrated—they were highly derivative, rather like Beck was highly derivative ten years prior.In light of this, I wonder what he thinks of this recent.
When I mentioned to a friend I was writing a post with that title, he responded by betting his mother's life that someone had already made that claim and set.
I'm no G.B. Shaw, as my previous post makes plain.* But since it turned into a version of Humiliation, I say we all should play. What lesson drilled into your head by someone you trusted later turned out to be hilariously misguided? I can start...
Because I teach rhetoric, not statistics, I chose not to have my students run standard deviations and what-not on the results of their final surveys. (Discipline-specific research classes further down.
Rob Farley might not have been born to burgle, but perhaps what we study influences what endowed chair we earn. Consider the curious case of Dr. Ed Diener:Professor Diener is.