Day: August 7, 2016

Michael Phelps has red circles on his back from cupping therapy – Business Insider Deresiewicz

Michael Phelps has red circles on his back from cupping therapy – Business Insider

Will Truman August 7, 2016

Michael Phelps will swim his first event of the Rio Olympics on Sunday night, and he’ll do...

Sunday!

Jaybird August 7, 2016

Prepping for Shakespeare

On Ad Hominems Part 1: The Messy World "Messy Kitchen," by Mark Knobil. Photograph of a messy kitechn.

On Ad Hominems Part 1: The Messy World

gabriel conroy August 7, 2016

Ad hominems probably aren't valid. But we can't get away from them, and we'll have to learn...

Morning Ed: Politics {2016.08.07.Su} morninged-newsrack

Morning Ed: Politics {2016.08.07.Su}

Will Truman August 7, 2016

There's an election on, in case you hadn't heard.

Philip H in reply to Dark Matter on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreSo you support class warfare. Good to know.
Dark Matter in reply to DensityDuck on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreWe have tracking because the alternative is concentrated poverty. Insisting my kid can't get a good…
Dark Matter in reply to DensityDuck on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreSo the choice is that either my daughter gets a sub-standard education or some random kid ends up on…
Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25On the success of Don't Rank Cuomo: “In these troubled times we live in, we need that.” Dawn Phelps,…
Philip H in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25They “looked dominant” which was the point. You can’t “win” negotiations by looking “weak” and diplo…
Philip H in reply to Slade the Leveller on From the NY Times: 400K Manufacturing Jobs Unfilled, KindaNeither are prevailing wages in construction or agricultural work. But those workforces are being ru…
InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 6/23/25Initial reports are that the strikes only set the Iranian program back by months. What a disaster. N…
Jaybird in reply to DensityDuck on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreOne point that strikes me as obvious is that continuing to fail, enough times, presents identically…
Jaybird in reply to John Puccio on Is Prestige TV Losing Its Prestige?From what I understand, the original pitch for Stranger Things was a bunch of clips from a half doze…
DensityDuck in reply to Jaybird on From City Journal: Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not AnymoreThere are plenty who consider "we tried and failed" to be morally justifiable in a way that "we didn…