For your enjoyment: Hey, who doesn't love a bag of cash? The end of the era of austerity? The remarkable potential of (really) small naval combatants. A crash course on Chechnya and Kyrgyzstan. Casualties in the war on Political Science. Pretty pictures of the Boneyard. What...
If anyone is interested, I am participating in a panel at HuffPo Live at 9:30 on workplace safety. In part at least, it will deal with the piece I wrote.
The most important aspect of Jason Collins's decision to become the first theoretically employable openly gay male in a major American sport isn't that this "accomplishment" requires that many qualifiers,.
I wanted to share some quotes and links I found while I was out and about today. And by out and about I mean while sitting on my ass, indoors, typing on my computer, looking for erotic art featuring anthropomorphized animals interesting stuff in my twitter...
President Obama proclaimed yesterday "Workers Memorial Day." That would have been a much better thing if the president had mentioned anything about the recent deaths in West, Texas or even.
Defending Tim Tebow's NFL performance requires some remarkable feats of illogic. In a classic of the genre, JfL provides the most tendentious statistical argument this side of Reinhart/Rogoff: It’s hilarious.
This Urban Institute report regarding wealth disparities and race/ethnicity is getting a lot of attention. Unfortunately, the report manipulates statistics to push a dubious conclusion, instead of emphasizing a progressive message that actually is supported strongly by the same numbers it quotes. The report's evidence for...
As Ezra Klein and others have said, there's no question that the Republicans have totally defeated the Democrats on all issues sequester. Caving on the FAA was politically almost inevitable.
Finally, the active Big 4 sports professional athlete barrier is broken, as Wizards center Jason Collins comes out as gay. Let's hope it's the first of many. It'd be nice.
I dunno, somehow I prefer Scalia's belligerent, protesting-too-much defenses of his bad faith in Bush v. Gore to O'Connor's attempts to disassociate herself: “Obviously the court did reach a decision and thought it had to reach a decision,” she said. “It turned out the election authorities...
The end of an error that was highly erroneous even by Jets standards. I wonder if he'll find another sucker team that Just Wants To Win Football Games. Geno Smith.
I know we coffee-drinking blue-state elitists are not supposed to care about George Jones (about Teachout's uncharacteristic cliched falsehood, I note only that the kind of Nashville country urban music.