Well. After a wild ride through the first chunk of the GOP Primary, Mitt Romney is back on top.
But he still can’t make himself not seem like an aristocratic nitwit. Case ... ...read more
I’m not sure precisely when it happened, but nowadays it seems that the defining feature of the far-right conservative movement is an obsession with unconstitutionality &... ...read more
In the newest issue of The New Yorker, James Surowiecki proposes a more gradated tax bracket hierarchy for the super-rich, i.e. millionaires, billionaires, and gajillionaires. L... ...read more
Like Nicolas Cage, Vice President Joe Biden is a controversial figure because he acts like a big dope and is so easy to typecast. But also like Nicolas Cage, Biden has my heart ... ...read more
Hey, ever used Google? Yeah okay, don’t answer that.
But anyway, you’ll notice that Google offers up suggestions when you begin typing in a search term. I’m no... ...read more
After recently spending a lot of time in a co-ed intellectual environment that can be fairly described as being almost incorrigibly male-oriented, I got to thinking: how far hav... ...read more
Nicolas Cage. The man is ubiquitous. Using his upcoming film The Sorceror’s Apprentice as a starting point and working backwards through movies already released, Cage has ... ...read more
On November 2, 2010 the great state of Alabama will elect a new governor. I say “new governor” definitively, because current Republican governor Bob Riley can’... ...read more
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First thing’s first: I used to blog only about health care; but then health reform passed. Nowadays the major issues surrounding health care are mostly about implement... ...read more