Virginia Heffernan reads Katie Roiphe so you don't have to: Over a series of bad-faith and gibberish paragraphs, she sets up the reader as a hayseed who is turned on by lite porn because she's never seen how they do it in Berlin or whatever;...
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The pitches thrown to Cody Ross in the last AB in today's Red Sox/Rays game. 3 were called strikes. If you pay attention to such things you probably could have.
Rhode Island seems like it would be the nation's bluest state. While an former Republican holds the governor's office, Democrats dominate the legislature by a 6-1 margin. But it doesn't.
If Bobby Valentine thinks major league baseball players can overcome subpar performance by trying harder, how does he explain his own career?
I now see from whom the Republican Party finds inspiration. There is a terrible legislation being considered in Honduras which would send women to jail if they use the morning.
Last May, djw and I went to the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus to see the exhibit "Controversy." In this exhibit, the OHS took 5 of their most disturbing objects.
I’ve just read a revealing essay by Christopher Edley, the dean of UC-Berkeley’s law school, which was brought to my attention by Brian Tamanaha. Dean Edley looks back over the development of his institution on the 100th anniversary of its founding, considers where his law...
Has actual casualties: But the reality is that a shockingly high number of American moms are dying for preventable reasons. The U.S. Maternal Mortality Ratio (the number of maternal deaths.
There are several indications that an article is not going to be worth your time unless you're a blogger looking for something really dumb to make fun of. The first.
Wow: The two Bobs, Gottlieb and Caro, have an odd editorial relationship, almost as contentious as it is mutually admiring. They still debate, for example, or pretend to, how many words Gottlieb cut from “The Power Broker.” It was 350,000 — or the equivalent of...
I never knew how hard Mitt and Ann Romney had it: “They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt,.
Nomination #1: Wayne LaPierre.