New York is rejecting federal money for "abstinence-only" sex "education." Good. (Meanwhile -- perhaps in a bid to attract the bullshit-libertarian vote he's alienated with his opposition to deposing regimes that pose no substantial threat to the United States and then engaging in quarter-assed reconstruction schemes...
In case there was still any question about whether the anti-contraception position of Catholic hospitals who don't want to provide emergency contraception to rape victims (but certainly don't feel so.
A good analysis of the Manhattan [HT: DJA], which among other advantages over the martini has never evolved into "whiskey up" and, even more importantly, has never been re-defined to.
Tom Hilton observes the occasion. Now, I consider myself something of an expert on weird holidays -- tomorrow is Hobbit Day and Elephant Appreciation Day, by the way -- but I hadn't run across National Parking Day before. Sounds like a great idea -- reclaim urban...
In honor of Yom Kippur, and the 34th anniversary of the beginning of the Yom Kippur War, I think it's appropriate to review Abraham Rabinovich's The Yom Kippur War. Rabinovich.
Progress!The portion of Baghdad in which Iraqi security forces are in control with minimal help from the American military has grown only slightly in recent months, to just over 8.
The big news around the office this week was this report from the Center for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington; it ranks the "most corrupt" members of Congress. There are few surprises for Alaskans: Members of the Senate:Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-NM)Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)Sen. Lisa...
This has been another edition etc.:The whole fracas of Petraeus, Crocker, MoveOn, etc. has had, to a good first approximation, no impact whatsoever on anything of any significance. Bush continues.
Bad writing and thinking, defined.
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson
Yeah, I'd have to say that, when doing an empirical analysis of the KKK, "Perhaps the most limiting feature of our data is that we were unable to obtain any.
Lindsay has the news about NYC subway stations being wired for cell phone use. However, there is one minor error:If everything goes according to plan, all 277 underground stations will.