What to say about Tom Clancy... He wasn't a particularly good writer, and his books got worse as he got older. Nevertheless, it takes a certain degree of talent to make the techno-thriller, well, thrilling, and I think that his earlier works certainly succeeded on this...
Nick Gillespie thinks that you shouldn't worry yourself about which party is responsible for refusing to negotiate or which party is trying to leverage economic damage of various scope in.
I can't see how this isn't the greatest endorsement of the Democratic Party ever: “Saturday Night Live” alumnus and “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo” actor Rob Schneider appeared in a short.
In our continuing chronicle of jellyfish taking over the planet and replacing humans as the dominant species, we have jellyfish attacking Sweden and shutting down a nuclear reactor. The Soviets couldn't stop western Europe's nuclear regime, but what are the Soviets compared to jellyfish? Nothing. Meanwhile,...
The September 2004 archive has now been fully restored. Some highlights: Arguments about reputation never get old. Reading this gives me a sad. Not to speak ill of the dead....
Here's a handy guide for the playoffs. ...Good to see the Mets make a contribution to the Pirates! ...and on behalf of Yankee-haters rooting for the Bucs everywhere, double thanks.
I love the Republican Party's ideological consistency: House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) worked with top congressional Democrats behind the scenes to preserve employer contributions for congressional staff's health care plans even as he decried those subsidies in public, Politico reported Tuesday. Emails and documents obtained by...
It can be argued, as some commenters have tried to, that favoring Obama's refusal to negotiate over the debt ceiling is in some sense a "heighten-the-contradictions" argument. But at a.
Great job by IBEW Local 520 in Austin to execute its own undercover investigation of independent contractor fraud among the city's construction industry. Basically, employers are listing workers as independent.
My memory is news-cycle-short, so I can honestly say that I don't know. But apparently now that the government's shut down, whatever-it-is is now legal again, and putting words on the Interwebs.
This post is part of a series. Earlier installments are here and here. The first two posts in this series looked at a school (Iowa) that has dealt with the.
Who else needs an Occupy debit card? Wow. So what the 99% want is a banking structure with the fees made more transparent? There's a revolution for you! Here's a.