This is a weird story, but it totally makes sense that a doctor handing out illegal prescriptions would use this argument: Dr. Gracia Mayard, 61, is accused of distributing oxycodone between Jan. 1, 2012 and March 15, 2013. In exchange for cash, Mayard sold 2,953...
Author: Erik Loomis
An outstanding article about the greatness of "The Weight" and The Band more generally.
This piece on Hong Kong's out of control light pollution is a good reminder of one of the least controlled means of pollution. While maybe it isn't as damaging as.
Michigan Republicans are very special. After passing right to work legislation in at best a marginally legal manner, they are seeking to punish universities who are negotiating new contracts with faculty that would delay the legislation until the end of the contract. Specifically, they are...
Luis Feliz and the immigration advocates trying to eliminate the word "illegal" from our discourse on immigration are absolutely right--the word demonizes human beings and is deeply hurtful and damaging..
I certainly believe that Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States is a deeply flawed book. It's way too simplistic and polemical. Zinn was not much of a.
This is a good expose of the real story behind Abigail Fisher, the lead plaintiff in the case attempting to destroy the remnants of affirmative action in higher education admissions. In short, Fisher was a respectable but hardly exceptional student who simply did not have...
I thought it useful to reprint part of Senator Gaylord Nelson's speech from the first Earth Day, in 1970: I congratulate you, who by your presence here today demonstrate your.
Worth remembering in this week of March Madness that the labor, i.e,, the players, receive not one dime of the millions in revenue that the NCAA and schools pull in.
Today in lunatic food faddism: Why eat at all? Just subscribe to my tasteless liquid diet and all your nightmares of tasting food will come to an end. Via Russell Saunders and h/t to Lindsay Beyerstein for bringing this to my attention.
That's right, the National Rifle Association. And it isn't even close.
With MOOCs, the future is clearly what happened to the French Department at Southeastern Louisiana University. Fire all the tenure track professors, replace them with adjuncts, and continue offering the.