Loomis asks an interesting question:I have been thinking about some of the implications of Michael Moore's Sicko. Specifically, why is the United States the only nation in the developed world without some sort of equitable, government-funded health care? I am just wondering if we can look...
John Noonan of Op-For, a graduate of VMI, has an interesting article in the Weekly Standard proposing that the math and science heavy curriculum at the service academies should shift.
Pantload:Maybe the emphasis on getting more people to vote has dumbed-down our democracy by pushing participation onto people uninterested in such things. Maybe our society would be healthier if politicians.
Yesterday was sharks. Today, the world's only domesticated hippo. The last scene is priceless.
Ann says what needs to be said about the latest obsession over meaningless trivia.
The Times:The death of a marine in western Iraq brought the American military death toll to 74 so far in July, on course to be the lowest monthly figure this.
. . they lift[ed] the house on stilts and add[ed] a first floor.That's really, really hard core.I may have mentioned this already, but my state is chock full o' nuts.
"I've gambled all my life and it's never been a moral issue with me. I liked church bingo when I was growing up." [1]Erected upon a sturdy moral pedestal of.
The title of this post sounds crazy, huh? Unfortunately, for some women around the country who are mourning their stillbirths or miscarriages it's all too applicable.There's news today that a.
When one team in a division acquires Mark Texieira, and another acquires a 2B with no power, just-OK on base skills, and rapidly diminishing speed and range who probably isn't even an upgrade over the second baseman you're already playing...this is a problem.I've generally liked Minaya,...
Post of the day goes to Dan Drezner:First Ingmar Bergmann dies. Now it's Michelangelo Antonioni. Clearly, someone or something is killing Europe's great film directors. Anyone seen Michael Bay recently?.
I may have found the answer to the question I posed to you all over the weekend about what kind of weekly fill-in-the-blank blogging you'd like to see. The answer.