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, [...]
There’s way too much stupidity in the world to comment on all of it, but sometimes you see something that sets a new standard. The Cato Institute has commissioned Jaron Lanier to explain the Internet, and his contribution makes all the silly drivel written about it in the past look downright serious. Lanier’s main point [...]
You’ve seen the chirpy hostesses on Home Shopping Network and its clones, and you’ve laughed at them. But did you ever expect to see Bill Maher joining their ranks? Well, he has:
Not content with selling everything from books to exercise equipment online, the Web retailer Amazon.com is starting its own weekly talk show, presented over [...]
A shocking new study by Jay Zagorsky of Ohio State University shows that married people have greater net worth than divorced or single people. The trend actually starts well before the losers get divorced:
People who divorced started losing net worth four years before their divorces were final, Zagorsky said. That could be because they had [...]
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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This blogging business is boring, so I haven’t posted in a while and probably won’t for another while. The news that Bush has been wiretapping Christopher Hitchens without a warrant is the last straw for me and this Administration. When next you hear from me I’ll be a registered Democrat.
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