Annie Lowrey's story on American unemployment is essential, if very depressing, reading: “I’ve been turned down from McDonald’s because I was told I was too articulate,” she says. “I got denied a job scrubbing toilets because I didn’t speak Spanish and turned away from a laundromat...
Quiz time: Without looking it up, how many times have position players who were not eventually elected to the Hall of Fame (or who are not named "Bonds, "Sosa," "Rodriguez,".
Last night I was reading my twitter feed and kept seeing a picture of an impossibly dorky-looking guy and the hashtag #lookadouche. Now that I’m a rich, famous blogger, I’m.
The Nobel-Prize award winning author of, among many others, The Golden Notebook has passed away at age 94. R.I.P.
An interesting argument that we need Robert Moses and Le Corbusier-type architects to remake our cities to become bicycle friendly: If Henry Ford were reincarnated as a bike maker, Le.
The Harrisburg Patriot and Union issues an apology for its 1863 dismissal of the Gettysburg Address, which read: We pass over the silly remarks of the President. For the credit.
Apparently former National Blowjob Inquisitor Ken Starr has finally found an occasion for mercy. I know Starr doesn't think that students should have First Amendment rights either, but this is going a little far.
This is not an acceptable decision from the EPA during a Democratic administration: Today, the Environmental Protection Agency allowed the Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection to change how toxic selenium.
The corn industry's hustle to force us to turn it into fuel may have reached its peak. Normally, one might not look well upon the EPA lowering a standard that.
There's a certain kind of environmental writing that drives a lot of people crazy. This is the jeremiad that tells us the world is failing, we are at a tipping point, civilization is doomed, etc. In principle, I don't have a particular problem with the style,...
Shorter John Yoo: I'm appalled by the executive overreach of Obama's new ACA regulations. Plainly, Obama should have obtained these ends by arbitrarily detaining and torturing health insurance executives.
You may recall that Ted Kennedy engaged in the least civil act in the known history of human discourse by accurately describing Robert Bork's history of publicly stated views. One.