The Koufax Award nominees for funniest post, always a treasure trove, are up. How they winnowed the Fafblog! and Poor Man posts down to only a few, I have no idea. But I was particularly pleased to be reminded of this Belle Waring post about Reason's 35th Anniversary debate:...
I have been meaning to comment for a while on this very strange Slate article. Ezra raises the most salient objection: it's absolutely crazy to think that the Republicans, in.
The story that German welfare officials were intended to compel women to accept jobs in brothels at the risk of having their welfare payments discontinued has been discredited. (It is.
The Bonassus, Daniel Geffen, actually turns to the research.... a) Adjust your policies to be more like the other (more successful) party's? b) Stick to your guns and maintain the same policy positions (or move farther away from the other party)? c) Innovate: find a new set...
Classic Tomorrow.
One of the difficulties any rational person has with Gregg Easterbrook's review of Jared Diamond is that he is simply speaking a different, wingnuttier dialect of the English language. Once.
I know it's difficult to believe, but the Eatserhackery referenced below is conceivably only the second-stupidest thing featured in today's New York Times.
Rob and Scott have been doing just fine without me during my unplanned blogging sabbatical, to the extent that the vast majority of you probably hadn't noticed. At any rate,.
To be candid, lacking expertise on matters of either fashion or tact as I do I'm basically indifferent about Dick Cheney's Eddie Bauer Auschwitz outfit. Nonetheless, Lindsay Beyerstein's take on the.
This is on Book TV right now. Bobo, the Derb, and Christina Hoff Summers discuss I Am Gene Simmons. And it's as bad as it sounds. Bobo, of course, uses this to recycle anecdotes about college students from On Remainder Tables and complain about how colleges are no longer trying...
In real life, I am a glacially slow first baseman/corner outfielder with no power whose sole offensive contribution comes from a willingness to take a tremendous number of walks. My namesake.
Here's to hoping that lots of Iraqis decide to vote, that they are allowed to vote for candidates they want, that they don't get shot or blown up at the.