Reading this definitely takes me back to my Seattle days at the turn of the last decade, when one spoke and read from many people who seemed willfully blind to the fact that unless your city can afford a new subway system there's no may...
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As the election has now been called, expect a lot of such breathless pieces describing the fact that the British "electoral system" could produce a result where one party receives.
East: 1. NYY 2. BOS (*) 3. TB 4. BAL 5. TOR I don't like it either, but let's start here: the Yankees were the best team in baseball last.
It seems very likely that yesterday's disaster in West Virginia was at least in part the result of corporate negligence: For at least six of the past 10 years, federal records indicate, the Upper Big Branch mine has recorded an injury rate worse than the...
A poorly kept secret: tomorrow morning Gordon Brown will go to the Queen and do that thing he has to do in order to dissolve Parliament and have an election..
Wikileaks has just released this "classified US military video" depicting what appears to be the slaying of unarmed civilians by a military helicopter in Iraq in 2007. Two were Reuters.
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...
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.