This post from Michael Asher at DailyTech has already brought predictable yodels from climate change skeptics. From what I can gather, Asher supplies -- once again -- ample evidence that he's functionally innumerate:In 2004, history professor Naomi Oreskes performed a survey of research papers on climate...
"You ask for a miracle, I give you...Charlie Manuel."Granted, I've never understood the intentional walk fetish of so many managers. But they don't get much stupider than walking 1)the best.
Since I was hard on the Tribe earlier this month, I should note that the Red Sox have had three chances to knock out the Yankees this year, and each.
Matt says:A reasonable politics of "family values" needs to contain some penalties for heterosexuals with anti-family behavior (see, e.g., Dick Vitter, Rudy Giuliani) and support for gays with pro-family behavior. What they have right now is just loathing of gay people masquerading as defense of the...
It happens every fall. The first day of school* rolls around and I get jitters. Today is my last-ever first day of school, as I embark on my third (and.
David Ignatius.
Arrived in Chicago late afternoon; the 70 degree temp is a welcome change from the 95+humidity that's been afflicting Lexington for the last month. Some initial thoughts:With luck, the conference low point has been reached through consecutive renditions of "Walking in Memphis" and "The Wind Cries...
I actually think that Tia, responding to a criticism of people using the outrage about Michael Vick to criticize factory farming processes, makes a reasonable point here:Without reading them, but.
As the Mariners jump out to yet another early deficit, I note that one strange thing about Bill Bavasi is that it's very possible that the smartest thing he did.
Fifty-five years ago today, John Cage wasted 4 minutes and 33 seconds of his audience's time in Woodstock, NY. Some would argue this was the shortest duration of time squandered by the composer; some would also argue that Cage's performance was only the second strangest musical...
Trusty old Bill Saletan draws some funky comparisons today in his Human Nature column. After a paragraph about the broadening availability of surgery to repair the harm caused by Female.
Kenneth Ackerman, a Washington lawyer and amateur biographer, has penned Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties, a book focusing on the experiences of.