Is this a case of someone blowing something out of proportion, or is this an actual thing?...
Year: 2011
There seems to be a libertarian tendency to celebrate gridlock. Given that this is running off the...
Healthcare is a political football in every Western country to some extent. In countries with extensive government...
“Which translation do you prefer?” has spent the past half-decade climbing my list of least-favorite questions. While...
So, as the newcomer, its my turn to do the weekend Jukebox. Enjoy folks! And for something...
Weekend Open Mic Poetry Reading That Has Nothing To Do With Either Tea Parties Or Occupy Wall Street

Weekend Open Mic Poetry Reading That Has Nothing To Do With Either Tea Parties Or Occupy Wall Street
Oliver Wendell Holmes Senior will kick us off: Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That...
Richard Muller’s Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature review has almost exactly duplicated the consensus on climate change. In...
~by Creon Critic Reacting to the news the US would deploy 100 armed advisers to central Africa...
Its election season again in the US (when is it not). Election season just finished for us a...
(Note: Some of my thoughts here are riffed off of comments I made in Jaybird’s Explanation! post...
by Creon Critic, in a rejoinder to Murali (1.) Should there be any limits on working conditions?...
I’m not sure where this came from originally (I found it on Facebook) but it’s pretty hilarious....
Just a quick followup on Tod’s post about the debate. As has been widely reported for several...
The Beeb is reporting that Muammar Quaddafi has captured by Libya’s transitional government, hiding in a spider hole much...
Article Five: “The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments...
In a semi-recent post by fellow Gentleman JamesK, commenter Creon Critic gave an ineresting comment that bears a...
My colleague Jonathan Blanks writes: Last week, former undercover police officer Stephen Anderson told the New York...
Ta-Nehisi writes: When I think of Django Unchained all I see are rape scenes and scowling dudes. One of...
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of reevaluation of my political views; mostly, I’ve been questioning whether...
The Occupy Wall Street movement is metastasizing, or salubriously spreading, depending on your perspective. Over the weekend...