It seems that the fortune cookie originated in late 19th century Japan:There is one place where fortune cookies are conspicuously absent: China.Now a researcher in Japan believes she can explain the disconnect, which has long perplexed American tourists in China. Fortune cookies, Yasuko Nakamachi says, are...
I trust that Yglesias is employing what the kids these days call "sarcasm"...For instance, assaults increase by about 9% when a community hosts a college football game, vandalism increases by.
Sentencing youthful offenders (that's kids who are convicted for crimes) to life incarceration violates virtually every human rights norm out there. According to Human Rights Watch, there are only 7.
Quite possibly the most backwards historical claim you'll read all day, from You Know Who:The progressives believed in authoritarianism and out-of-control executive power precisely because they were progressives. And the story of American liberalism in the 20th century from Wilson to FDR and from FDR to...
Mike Huckabee:And you also have states that not only practice abortion, but if Roe v. Wade is overturned, we haven’t won the battle. All we’ve done is now we’ve created.
I see some of the passengers on Rudy!'s sinking boat are once again claiming that he didn't compete in any of the early states, and the authors of the article.
When I see that someone has combined 1)the debate forum capability of usenet with 2)the High Broderite idea that we need to "come together" or some such expressed in the underused metaphor of "blue" and "red" states, I frankly don't understand why we haven't solved global...
David Petraeus and I wear the same running shoes, but the similarities end there. Runner's World, via Danger Room:Today, he arrives for his workout at precisely 6:30 a.m., ready to.
Stupid question here from someone whose knowledge of markets is roughly equivalent to his comprehension of particle physics:Why, as I'm listening to right-wing radio -- which I do more often.
This shouldn't come as a surprise: prison is not a fun place to be for anyone, but especially not for women. Why is it so bad for women, you ask?Well, for one thing, because of drug war policies that have a disproportionate impact on women, more...
Sonar kills whales, but the Navy wants to use sonar in exercises to prove strike group readiness, because sonar also (indirectly) kills submarines. Some discussion of this came up last.
I agree with Ezra that Rush Limbaugh announcing a war against not only Huckabee but McCain seems significant -- barring some miracle like Fred Thompson being discovered alive the GOP.