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 current context, would be willing to strike some sort of deal if Democrats would go...
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.
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, I'm still here. My lack of blogging can be pretty directly linked to some serious (and...
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.
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 played eighty-four major league games, all at first base and the corner outfield positions. His range...
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.
Max Sawicky and Oliver Willis find hate-filled reactionary academic Glenn Reynolds making an argument that would have to accrue several levels of plausibility and empirical support to rise to the level.