As Matt and spackerman note, this collection of bizarre anecdotes and phrenology from Charlotte Allen has to be the dumbest thing published in an American newspaper in many moons. So I guess I can see why she would want to blame it on her gender as...
In today's Times (in the Styles section, of course), Pamela Paul discusses Doulas. She is sure to document the problems that can arise when a doula is not a good.
Team building, Provo style:A supervisor at a motivational coaching business in Provo is accused of waterboarding an employee in front of his sales team to demonstrate that they should work.
A Philosopher's Blog deconstructs the Pew report on prisons in the U.S. Nothing groundbreaking, but a solid and detailed analysis. Check it out here.
I'm going along, enjoying my Saturday morning newspaper reading catch-up, when I stumble on this (via zuzu):You know how ladies, when they don't get what they want, can go a.
I don't agree with every particular of the argument -- it's a little problematic to tie Hillary Clinton too strongly with her husband's administration (granting that much of the tying has been done by the Clinton itself), and it's really time to stop citing Kathleen Willey...
Check out this mashup of Clinton's red phone ad with GOP attack ads and Bill Clinton's take on fear and hope:Frankly, I think Hillary Clinton deserves a much better campaign.
This is rather a surprise....Northrop Grumman and European partner EADS, parent company of Airbus, beat out presumptive favorite Boeing for the U.S. Air Force's $40 billion, 179-plane tanker deal, according.
Henry. "First he came for Cookie Monster, and I did not speak out, because I was not the Cookie Monster...."Elmo has barricaded himself in the closet with a pack of smokes, a sawed-off shotgun, and a year's worth of Snickers bars.
Some claim that robots will arise and destroy their makers; others fear the irrepressible menace of flesh-gobbling zombies.Daniel Nexon, however, has been tracking a danger that just may outstrip them.
This was quick; maybe rumors about Kitty Hawk were being deployed strategically?India and Russia have ended a protracted dispute over the cost of a Soviet-era aircraft carrier which will be.