The New York Times urges Democrats to filibuster Alito:
It is hard to imagine a moment when it would be more appropriate for senators to fight for a principle. Even a losing battle would draw the public’s attention to the import of this nomination.
And I agree. Of course the man is qualified, and of course the [...]
You’ve probably noticed that Google doesn’t work as well as it used to. Instead of finding good links on the first page or two of a search, you now have to page through 5 or 6 pages until you get to the good stuff. I don’t know why this is, unless it’s a combination of [...]
A shocking new study reveals that people don’t process political information with their rational brains, but with their hysterical emotions:
The test subjects on both sides of the political aisle reached totally biased conclusions by ignoring information that could not rationally be discounted, Westen and his colleagues say.
Then, with their minds made up, brain activity ceased [...]
Matt Welch, the man who invented the Warblog, has moved into the Big House with a shiny new job editing the opinion pages at the LA Times. He’s going to be shaping the national political dialog:
I’ll be helping shape the section; editing and writing both columns and editorials, hopefully bringing some new voices to paper, [...]
Family Scholars Blog is up to their old tricks again, touting some discredited old advocacy research as if it were bright, shining, and new:
Family structure clearly influences educational outcomes for U.S. children. The weakening of U.S. family structure in recent decades, driven primarily by high and rising rates of unwed childbearing and divorce, has almost [...]
I found this in some code I was reading today:
/*
* Farewell, happy fields,
* Where joy forever dwells; hail horrors!
*
* John Milton, Paradise Lost
*/
system_reset();
I work for a very literate company, apparently.
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The Atlanta Journal Constitution and the so-called Family Scholars Blog are all upset over Georgia’s attempt to correct inequities in its child support guideline. The AJC says it’s going to make children live on mac and cheese, and the Family Scholars see equally grim consequences:
The “second family” who actually has the dad in the home [...]
Declan McCullagh is Cnet’s chief political correspondent and an ardent champion of civil liberties, EFF-style*. He runs the Politech e-mail list, a place where such stories as the Little Red Book hoax are given wide currency and writes a column on civil liberties for Cnet, which most recently consists of a hysterical misconstruction of the [...]
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