My worth-very-little guess is that the most likely outcome is that (with Clinton winning OH and RI, and Obama carrying VT) Obama wins the delegates in Texas and Clinton squeaks out a popular vote victory there. Should that come to pass, I think most of what...
Remember yesterday when the Washington Post made room for Charlotte Allen's screed? Well, apparently the whole thing was just one tongue-in-cheek big ol' joke. Just like Joel Stein. Funny, I'm.
Omar Little vs. Anton Chigurh?
News flash: Great writers often partake of the sauce:Prudent writers learn to take more out of drink than it takes out of them. Kingsley Amis, in a 1975 interview, prescribed a glass of Scotch as an "artistic icebreaker." John Mortimer told the New York Times that...
Great. I wonder how many children will get seriously ill because John McCain encouraged their parents not to vaccinate them based on crank pseudo-science?
Armando, like several commenters, isolates this passage in the Jeffrey Rosen op-ed I blogged about yesterday and uses it to reject the entire analysis:Mr. Obama . . . is not.
Very early records (400 AD) indicate the existence of an organized Hindu monarachy in eastern Borneo. In the 16th century the ruler of a kingdom that would become Kutai Karta Negara converted to Islam, and began to expand into the Borneo interior. In the seventeenth century...
Chris Bowers, in the context of discussing whether or not Obama is a progressive:Campaigning is often a sign of how someone will govern. In 2000, the Bush campaign ended up.
Skywalkers in Korea Cross Han SoloThey came from all over the world, poles in hand, and feet ready to inch more than half a mile across a high wire strung.
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.