A new study makes some audacious claims about the supposed value of breastfeeding. Apparently, such claims are both very common and very controversial. I'm not familiar with the relevant epidemiological literature, but I suspect that debates in this area are influenced heavily by, among other...
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Watching Mike Jacobs up there hacking is almost enough to make me miss Daniel "the poor man's Ed Kranepool" Murphy....
In fairness, when it comes to trusting states to administer important federal social programs, what could possibly go wrong?
So I'm back from the great city of Grace Slick. Marty Balin. Paul Katner. Jorma...something. Three panels, including one with co-blogger. City great, of course, even if exploration time was unduly limited. Actual blogging to resume forthwith.
An egg appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and.
Althouse has devoted another post to figuring out my previous one because, according to her, it contained "strange levels of complexity." It didn't. She then completely misreads the update to.
I went over to Althouse's and wrote a number of insanely offensive comments, but everyone started agreeing with me before I could declare "April Fools'!" Please ignore comments in which someone talks about trading in white women for Filipina because the former can't be trained; calls strangers...
According to The Guardian, "managers" hired by universities in the UK have increased a modest 33% in the last five years. Academic staff have increased by 10% in that time.
I know we've dealt with part of this already, but here's more Goldberg tendentiousness: Lepore mentions that the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in the Buck v. Bell case, led by.
Wrongful Death asks: If the courts rule that the federal government can force you to buy a product produced by a private company or pay a punitive tax, then why can’t the federal government force you to buy a Chevy from them? What’s to stop...
Robert Samuelson gives away the show: Obama's behavior resembles a highly indebted family's taking an expensive round-the-world trip because it claims to have found ways to pay for it. It's.
This weekend Glenn Reynolds noted that a "plausible" explanation for Barack Obama's unwillingness to give the current Israeli government 100% of what it wants (Obama has drawn the line at.