The more parents who opt out of making their children go through the pointless and educationally destructive Common Core standardized testing that is the fad of Rheeist politicians of both parties, the better. I certainly implore all the parents who read this blog to stand up...
Maryland legislators have introduced a bill to make the state's poultry producers pay a whole 5 cents a bird to protect the Chesapeake Bay watershed from runoff from these incredibly.
Alyssa Rosenberg and Matt Lewis talk about the legacy of Philip Seymour Hoffman:
Have you ever wondered what that inveterate old racist crank William F. Buckley thought about The Beatles? Luckily, now you can find out. From September 13, 1964: The Beatles are not merely awful; I would consider it sacrilegious to say anything less than that they are...
Man sitting on dead horse, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, 1880
As everyone now knows, the formidable Seattle secondary was built largely from late-round draft picks: Chancellor and Sherman were 5th round picks, Maxwell a 6th rounder. It's a tribute to.
Unfortunately, the predictor is Bill Kristol, so I'd set the over/under on the number of these people who actually runs at 0.5: Who’s going to survive training camp, endure pre-season and do well enough in scrimmages to be on stage for the first post-Labor Day 2015...
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Updated below Here. When I originally linked to Dylan Farrow's NYT letter I did a little digging, and was surprised to discover that in all the back and forth regarding.
I knew--in an abstract way--that calling that one gigantic, long-necked, long-tailed, small-headed dinosaur “Brontosaurus” was wrong. I knew that there was a dinosaur out there who was Bronto-like, but was not called “Brontosaurus” anymore. What I didn’t know was that the “Brontosaurus” never really existed. Someone...
I suppose there aren't a whole lot of places in Russia where horrible things haven't happened. But still: History has largely been kind to Alexander II, the Russian czar who.
“Horse-Meat ‘Worms’ Fool Frogs,” Popular Science, 1940