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Through Glenn Reynolds, whither I wandered because of Mark’s post about something else entirely, I came upon this truly amazing pasticcio of mendacity, ignorance, and small-minded cupidity. [UPDATE 20-21/IX: the original post was taken down; instead there's this and a cache of the original post is here.] It’s worth a close look because the author [...]
Archive for September, 2010
September 18th, 2010
September 17th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
No, Christine O’Donnell isn’t the craziest Republican candidate this year: not even in Delaware.
September 17th, 2010
Category: Watching Conservatives
“A party that nominates O’Donnell is a party unfit to govern.”
September 17th, 2010
Category: Education policy
The University of California still looks like an intellectual powerhouse.
September 17th, 2010
…and how about some of that famous New Yorker fact-checking? Tilley’s interest in science is noted in this delightful cover, and The New Yorker has published some excellent popular science, including environmental articles by John McPhee. But this week’s embarrassingly adulatory profile of James Dyson, which retails one technical howler after another, raises the question [...]
September 17th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Mike Huckabee wants to defend the exclusion of pre-existing conditions? Bring it on.
September 17th, 2010
…replaying his dissolute youth and repentance in drag …or maybe it’s the Buddha? The only thing missing is the patron saint of nagging mothers, Santa Monica. However, this is not the first time this history has repeated itself as farce. Imogene Coca (and Coleman, Comden and Greene) wrapped it up and tied it with a [...]
September 17th, 2010
Category: Spirituality and Religion
The pope warns against “atheist extremism.”
September 17th, 2010
Although a number of drugs cause problems in the UK, the country is unique among developed nations in the extent to which heroin dominates as the primary illegal drug. The main treatment response to the heroin-addicted population in recent years has been to dramatically expand methadone maintenance. According to Professor Susanne MacGregor’s new book on [...]
September 16th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Glenn Reynolds warns against the use of personal insults in intra-party politics, 60 seconds after referring to Mike Castle as a “loser” and quoting various of his readers sneering at Castle’s manhood and questioning his sexual orientation.