Via Yglesias, a fun and interesting Sunday morning diversion: check out this website that uses census data to give you the demographic of your ZIP code. Especially interesting for you new yorkers, where ZIP codes are proxy for income, level of bourgeoisity, and, of course, coolness....
As you may have heard, Christopher Hitchens wrote an article in Vanity Fair this week ruminating on the fact that a young man, recently killed in Iraq, may have taken.
I have mixed feelings regarding the ignominious participation of the Cubs in this year's playoffs. I'm happy to see them lose, and glad that the defeat came in the form.
After reading the piece about Fort Hunt in today's WaPo, I'm going to propose a new rule for wingnuts: All efforts to recruit the historical legacy of the "greatest generation" to amplify the significance of the War on Terra should henceforth avoid conversations with actual representatives...
It's not wise to attribute too much wisdom to the "wisdom of the crowds", such that it is, but I'm nevertheless struck by just how dominant Hillary Clinton is in.
I missed much of today's rare instance of justice on Earth at various parental visitation and birthday party related programed activities. But I left dinner to hear descriptions of the.
...that the quality and quantity of healthcare is vastly different depending on where you live, what your racial and ethnic background is, and how much money you have. And the differences are especially apparent when it comes to maternal health and infant mortality.A new study shows...
One of my favorite sections of Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class dwells on the "pecuniary reputation" of certain varieties of domesticated animals. In short, Veblen argues that while.
The major Republican candidates have all endorsed Bush's appalling veto of S-CHIP. If the Democratic candidate can't repeatedly hammer his or her opponent throughout the campaign for this, they don't.
I certainly agree with Yglesias that "It would be a big, big problem for Giuliani's general election campaign to have any of the major cultural conservative institutions backing a third party candidate. It's generally very difficult to win when you have a spoiler trying to take...
Shorter Verbatim Daily Conservative, in re: one of the corporations that Made Milwaukee Famous sponsoring the Folsom Street Fair: "They’re still crappy beer, now they’re crappy gay beer." Oh noes!.
The war on parody proceeds at full speed.UPDATE by bean: . . . and look who's laughing.