Americans are so un-American: Most Americans, 74 percent, also back the decision to try Tsarnaev in the federal court system instead of a military tribunal. When will people learn that freedom has to be pre-emptively surrendered? We have to blow up the Bill of Rights so...
In this week's Diplomat column I concern troll China: Nevertheless, it is not clear why China has determined to assertively pursue both of these disputes at the same time. Historically,.
This is one way environmental racism works. Cleaning up the Gowanus Canal in New York? A good thing. Taking the nasty stuff from one wealthy white area of Brooklyn and.
It's that time of year -- the most widely anticipated LGM post of the year is here! For the West, to balance my prejudices my picks will be joined by alternative selections from world-class blogger and perennially pessimistic Canucks fan Brad Plumer. (1)Chicago v. (8)Minnesota: This...
In what must be the most compelling evidence that Things I Write On The Internet Come True -- and in that order no less -- one of you lot sent.
STUDENT: It's so great to get to college and finally have a gay professor. SEK: I bet it is. Ain't culture shock grand? STUDENT: Absolutely. So what was it like.
Is there no end to the perfidy of Justin Verlander? Selling to the low bidder reduces the overall valuation of the franchise by about $35 million, which seems to be against the interests of owners league-wide. And Seattle is a much larger metropolitan area than Sacramento,...
You will be shocked to learn that the 5 Republican appointees to the Supreme Court declined to defer to state court findings of fact, because doing so might led to.
To what degree, if at all, should student evaluations and/or complaints be taken into account for the purposes of tenure or post-tenure review? What about judgments regarding a faculty member's.
Say it's somewhere between 5 and 7 in the evening. You're dead tired and you don't feel like slaving over a hot stove for an hour. Well, that was the situation I found myself in last night. I also didn't have any proteins defrosted, so I...
Happy 80th to Willie Nelson!! "Hello Walls" is an early classic which Faron Young made a hit long before Willie had his own commercial success. The album from where this.
Kilgore gets it: Suppose it were possible to engineer a permanent national deal (it’s not, but just consider it as a thought experiment) wherein in exchange for a strictly enforced.