North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory is quite an intelligent man and a principled politician: In a lengthy and, at times, awkward and disjointed press conference, Gov. Pat McCrory said today that he would sign House Bill 589 — the controversial bill to alter state voting and...
Here's a Stereogum list of the 10 best Townes Van Zandt songs. I'll offer my own 10 best, which look pretty different. Between about 1997 and 2002 or so I.
In my last entry, when I asked for your funny or familiar stories from the wingnutosphere, what I had in mind was old chestnuts like the time a bunch of.
This is from a couple of weeks ago and some of you might have seen it already, but this is an excellent roundup of the wages of global capitalism on the people and ecosystems of Indonesia. Apparel and manufacturing corporations are increasingly looking to Indonesia as...
Weigel is right about the silliness of the attempt of Republicans arguing that Weiner and Filner represent the real "war on women." The obvious point: Democrats, unsurprisingly, think this is.
The Yankees' acquisition of Alfonso Soriano is another sign that the team's ownership really has had trouble adjusting to the new reality that you have to develop from within in.
Mick Jagger is 70 years old today. The only Rolling Stones show I ever went to was at the old Silverdome outside Detroit in 1981. He was 38 then, which at the time seemed way too old for his on-stage persona (The most memorable thing about...
The true victims of police violence against protestors are always the cops. The former police officer who pepper-sprayed students during an Occupy protest at the University of California, Davis is.
HERTZ AT ONTARIO, CA AIRPORT: Hello, welcome to Hertz Ontario! SEK: Hi, I have a question about the A/V connection that only a deaf person (like myself) would have about.
Well, this will make it extra depressing when Anthony Kennedy cites the "research" in an opinion next year...
While conceding that Johnathan Rees's argument against MOOC's focuses too much on the self-interest of faculty members and not enough on the massive problems of distance learning, Jon Chait's touting.
For interested parties who don't want to wade through the 300,000 words and 40,000 comments at ITLSS, or the much more concise summary provided by Don't Go to Law School.