A friend of mine once told me that the experience of the first two weeks made him want to have more kids. This seemed an absurd proposition, so I asked him to elaborate. He argued that everything that the baby did in the first couple of...
At most ballparks the staff find creative ways to make crappy players look good; "Dan Wilson is hitting .307 in 16 of his last 24 games," and so forth. Apparently,.
Essentially, among people who don't think that the Supreme Court's perspectives should range only from "Rockefeller Republican" to "Newt Gingrich Republican," there have been two excuses for nominating Elena Kagan.
Finding out that liberal pundits were happy when Barack Obama won the 2008 election is a remarkably shocking scandal. Tucker Carlson is truly redefining journalism for our time.
I think our commenter Bob sums it up well: If authenticity mattered Billy Ray Cyrus, born into a Pentecostal family in KY, would be a much better musician than Ingram.
Paul Waldman on the subject of painting Energy Department roofs white to save energy: I'm guessing conservatives will attack this idea, because ... well, because conservation is for wimps, or.
After seven years of living in the UK, two institutions that I admire (which never fails to invite derision from some quarters in Britain) are the BBC and the NHS. The former is funded by one of the most regressive taxes on the planet, one that...
I'm teaching two sections of my comics course in Fall 2010, and instead of relying on all the Batman or Alan Moore material, I decided to test-drive chapters from the.
With now multiple major oceanic oil spills occupying the world's attention, a few commentators and NGOs are trying to remind us of the various other ecological disasters that may be.
Now I see that Big Journalism is ablaze with this article in which The Daily Caller's Jonathan Strong reveals that the cosigners a letter published in The Nation in April of 2008 actually discussed the contents of that letter before they signed it. Moreover, Strong reveals...
Every time I go off the grid for a few days the world I return to seems vastly dumber: Also, does anyone really believe that Andrew Breitbart would intentionally distort.
Something that I and other colleagues have noted at institutions similar to my current employer is that there seems to be an omnipresent implied, when not explicit, anti-intellectual current defining.