As I've written about, universities in the UK have offered us a 1% pay increase, which they implemented in December, backdating to August. My union went on strike twice last term, once in October and again once in December. Those representing support / professional services, as...
I know it doesn't seem that way right now for many of us in the east, but the climate continues to warm. 2013 was the 4th warmest year on record..
Remember, being one of LGM's tens of regular readers means that you're exposed to cutting-edge arguments before they blow up: For the first time since breaking football, the media, and.
Good piece in Atlantic Cities on One Bus Away. And a source of alumni pride: I didn't realize (or had forgotten) that this great recent innovations in public transit was invented at UW. One constant theme of transit advocates like the good folks of Seattle transit...
I was feeling pretty hopeless about the forthcoming Supreme Court decision in Harris v. Quinn, which challenges the constitutionality of states signing closed shop contracts with public sector unions. If.
I have been asked to link to my past defense of Roe v. Wade on the merits, from back when this blog's appeal was even more selective. I'm happy to.
In her roundup of classic negative reviews, Kathleen Geier cited Pete Wells's review of Guy Fieri's Times Square profit-taking venture. And that was a great review -- funny without condescending to the food in principle or to the target market. His review last week of an...
True Detective is an eight-episode series on HBO, starring Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. The first two episodes have featured a compelling performance from McConaughey, as a disturbed former undercover.
7 years, $155 M plus the posting fee to the Yankees. Is this likely to restore them to contendership in the AL East? Discuss. ...Keri with more on the fallout.
Jessica Mason Pieklo has a good roundup of the legal challenges to Roe. Meanwhile, in "for Republicans, life begins at conception and ends at birth" news, the March For Life (sic) will feature activism against the Affordable Care Act: The 41st annual march Wednesday will feature...
Free trade agreements are so bipartisan now that even a large number of liberals support them. But free trade agreements and the resultant fully mobile capital unhinged to states has.
Item: The word "thug" was uttered on American TV 675 times yesterday, the most times in one day in at least three years. — Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) January 21, 2014.