If you think your life isn't depressing enough, reading the excellent history site Executed Today is a good way to do accomplish this task. What is Executed Today? It's a website with daily postings about someone executed on that day in history. Good times, no? Today...
A useful list of food products for your Thanksgiving made in union shops. If you have a choice, choose union-produced food.
I know we frequently talk about a benefit of marijuana legalization undermining the cartel violence in Mexico. But at this point, the cat is out of the bag on that..
I happened to catch most the romantic comedy, “Addicted to Love” this weekend, as my son napped. I’m not quite sure why I stayed with the movie, as I didn’t particularly like it, but for some reason I felt compelled to keep watching until it ended....
If I understand correctly, Europe has been mostly conquered by the Hitler-of-the-week roughly 500 times since Obama took office. Frankly, it's amazing that the world economy isn't in worse shape.
Can We at Least Tell the One about the Wealthy Privileged People Who Do Moderately Tasteless Things?
Brian Lowry, “writer” for Variety, is upset that Sarah Silverman is “limiting herself” by "appearing determined to prove she can be as dirty and distasteful as the boys” Yes, that’s.
I spent some time reading terrible arguments -- in good faith or otherwise -- that Democrats will regret using the nuclear option. I explain why all the forms of this argument are transparently wrong. Of these, the strangest is liberal sentimentalism about the filibuster: Some liberal...
On Friday, I had the opportunity to speak with Alyona Minkovski from HuffPo Live about the book: I also heartily recommend the article on Pentagon accounting practice that Scot Paltrow.
Look, math is really complicated. Sometimes it's difficult to see whether one half of the equation matches up with the other half, or something. There may, or may not, be.
The Guardian ran this a couple of days ago, written by an academic who finally grew frustrated enough to pack it in. The takeaway: Universities in the 21st century no longer aspire to become beacons of knowledge, even though they would like to promote themselves as...
I'll have a piece going up tomorrow [UPDATE: it's here] on some really bad defenses of the filibuster tomorrow. Since I didn't have space for this particular one, let's turn.
If you're going to write an article about something "feminists" believe, it really should not be based on the arguments of a single feminist who is both highly unrepresentative and.