Lots of things conspire against me writing as much as I’d like around here, and one of...
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A piece of advice from a 1918 children’s wear trade journal:
Last year, I posted the bowl preview I always write for a friend. Since I wrote it...
Okay, this was outed in the comments on Will’s post, so I’ll just put it here where...
Eliminating taxes on the prizes that accompany Olympic medals is a terrible idea. In fact, as far...
This is not the most original post idea I’ve ever had, but this post by Matt Yglesias...
I just wanted to chime in to follow up on a few of Will’s points – and...
I’m reading Akhil Reed Amar’s book, America’s Constitution: A Biography (on a blog recommendation from Peter Sagal), and...
This chart from a JP Morgan analyst has been making the rounds on the internet:
Don’t want to interrupt the symposium, so I’m tossing this in Off the Cuff. Liz Anderson, who...
1. Part of me, of course, is sad Scott Walker won. He’s a conservative and I’m not....
Warning: This post contains spoilers through the second book of A Song of Ice and Fire and...
I just finished The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, and despite the fact that I am...
After reading Will’s post yesterday about baby names, I started poking around in the Social Security baby...
Okay, whatever partisan disagreements I have with the House Republicans, their decision to eliminate the American Community...
Sometimes Shep Smith is really just awesome.
Setting aside some of the obnoxious partisan rhetoric (seriously, how is it the left’s fault that Michele...
I was getting ready to write something about the new Social Networking Online Protection Act (SNOPA for...
Hello all! Sorry I’ve been kind of out of touch for a month or so. I’ve had...
I went to check Yahoo! ™ to see who won our little competition, but it seems that...