Part I: Why does a baseball team have nine players?
Month: May 2015
Goodwill is not a place for poor people to shop. It’s a jobs program.
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World governance is something no serious thinker would today endorse. This is unfortunate, because world government...
In a sense, it is the perfect speculative fiction novel, even as it pays unspoken homage to...
What are the pros and cons of Warren Buffett’s proposal to increase the earned income tax credit...
On the evolution of Mad Max.
They're terrible because they are actively destroying good journalism.
And it isn't just them.
Lewis Carroll invented a word game called "Doublets" but I know it as "Word Ladder".
The figure is traditionally taken to be a "he": Maybe it's because he seems to be bald....
The punk activist scene in DC of the heady 80s and 90s is apparently inspirational to many...
How does a completely made-up experiment end up in a major scientific publication, get covered by the...
Everybody's biased and everybody lies.
This Week: Politics, Healthcare, Society, Puerto Rico, and China!
Summer unofficially kicks off this weekend. Saints preserve us.
Is this the best of all possible worlds for hot archival items?
You would be much happier at home with a husband and children.
David Letterman's show featured some awfully great music.
zic squeaked. And got promoted. So allow me to re-introduce myself. I'm zic (or maybe rzic),...
