Headline of the Week: Turns Out the South Really Is Bats**t Crazy In separate posts, Mark and Pat reported respectively on a school district in North Carolina forcing McNuggets on children and a law...
Over the past week or so, we seem to have had a rash of misunderstandings, misread intents inferred, misread comments, and just plain misstatements and the unpleasant retractions thus obliged. There’s been a lot of...
A much more comprehensible follow-up column here. The charitable interpretation will be that he took the marbles out of his mouth and made some sensible points about how biology sits in tension with every...
Due to reporting from Madeleine Morgenstern that answers a lot of the concerns I had raised about the North Carolina Lunch Box Story, I have retracted my post on the subject to the extent...
Slate reports: This week, the Virginia state Legislature passed a bill that would require women to have an ultrasound before they may have an abortion. Because the great majority of abortions occur during the...
An interesting piece in the Harvard Business Review about the problems present in the current financial sector and the incentive system created by a financial-market based compensation system. Read the whole thing, it’s quite...
I keep trying to better understand James Poulos. I like James a great deal, though we disagree pretty fundamentally on many things. I’ve been fascinated by his discussions of the Pink Police State (a conservative...
Nick Diaz is a mixed-martial arts fighter. He is arguably one of the top five fighters in the sport. When he isn’t training to fight he runs triathlons. His cardio is considered the best in...
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on President Biden Affirms the Passage of the ERAThe bill that passed the ERA in Congress specified a seven-year deadline for ratification. That expi…
on President Biden Affirms the Passage of the ERACan someone explain this for a foreigner? As I understand it, an amendment has either been ratified…
on President Biden Affirms the Passage of the ERAPointless gesture.
on SCOTUS Upholds TikTok Ban: Read It For YourselfAs far as I'm aware, this is the first time the fact that the law and the courts have discussed the…
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