So far, I've left the Wisconsin chapter of the Sam Alito Appreciation Society in Scott's capable hands, but I can't resist drawing attention to Project Runway's Reynoldsian link to this repugnant commentary on the current off-Broadway production of My Name is Rachel Corrie. I suppose...
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It was a bad day to be Roy Edroso. First, there was this (which, along with comments like this, have been sending me into fits of laughter for about 24.
Lester (my brother in law's cat) and Sophie (my mother in law's dog). What would Rick Santorum think?
Congratulations are due to my younger brother, who completed his preliminary exams in sociology yesterday; assuming the large mid-atlantic state school he attends never finds out that he actually spent the past week playing Grand Theft Auto and watching LonelyGirl15 videos on YouTube, he will...
The BBC asked 27,000 respondents in 25 countries to briefly evaluate these two statements:Most countries have agreed to rules prohibiting torturing prisoners. Which position is closer to yours?Terrorists pose such.
Behold:Charles P. Strite, born in Minneapolis, MN, received patent #1,394,450 on October 18, 1921 for the bread-toaster. During World War I, Strite worked in a manufacturing plant in Stillwater, MN,.
From the Times' second most e-mailed story of the past several days (behind something on the arcane and mildly distressing subject of "preschool puberty"):Representative Jo Ann Davis, a Virginia Republican who heads a House intelligence subcommittee charged with overseeing the C.I.A.’s performance in recruiting Islamic...
Diane Nash, as Erik Loomis explains.Sadly, the centrality of women to the civil rights movement has only become faintly visible to most Americans with the deaths of Rosa Parks and.
Because my television has been broken for two months now, I'm not suprised I missed this from Condoleezza Rice, appearing a few weeks back on 60 Minutes:"You have conceded that.
So saith Assrocket:In fact, as we have often noted, if you listened to any of the speeches President Bush gave on Iraq in 2003 or read the Congressional authorization on.
After further reflection on the uses and mis-uses of statistics, I have concluded -- along with Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Yankee, the Milton Friedman Appreciation Society and Supper Club, and Instahack -- that.