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The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors

Mar 1st

I can’t seem to resist this site!  File under: people...

Mar 1st

The World Will End in 5 Minutes

God help us all: At 5:30 p.m. Eastern time today, all 7,100 Starbucks locations in the United...

Feb 26th

Obama's pragmatic idealism

Noam Scheiber argues that Obama’s policy team is all about real-world results rather than...

Feb 26th

This Hits Close To Home

~ Matt 

Feb 26th

Oh, no

Feb 24th

Move Over, Oil, There’s Money in Texas Wind

Feb 23rd

Search continues for missing Middlebury...

Feb 22nd

Sometimes you learn something new about someone you know...

Feb 22nd

Timewaster of the Day

Well, there goes my productivity for the afternoon. Consider yourself warned. Spin the Black Circle...

Feb 21st

Hate to quote Huckabee, but ...

zachklein: If we end up with the (tax) rebates, we’re going to borrow the $150 billion from China....

Feb 21st

Obama's Accomplishments

In response to Chris Matthew’s idiotic “gotcha” interview with one of...

Feb 21st

“What I was clearly talking about was that I’m proud in...”
— Michelle Obama, on her recent...

Feb 21st

Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain

Feb 21st

Leave us a comment!

Hi Mom!  (We’ll leave this ambiguous, to be certain all of our readers feel included here.)...

Feb 21st

Who knew New Yorkers would get so excited about punctuation?...

Feb 21st

An Israeli museum is displaying 53 French-held paintings...

Feb 21st

Batting 1.000 here

Just a reminder that no one should ever listen to any predictions I make about the election. My...

Feb 20th

Paging Joe McCarthy

Over at National Review’s blog, Lisa Schiffren does her level best to insinuate that...

Feb 20th

Speaking of hyper-critical...

James Lileks goes on a bit of a rant today: Love of country must always be qualified these days,...

Feb 19th

Michelle Obama Gaffe

This is a major gaffe, in my opinion, and I think she (and Barack) are going to get beaten over...

Feb 19th

Oh my goodness.  Totally wondering what will happen next....

Feb 19th

Food for Thought (courtesy of The...

What cows are meant to eat:  Grass, more or less exclusively.  While humans and other...

Feb 18th

BYOB part deux: Why I don't buy bottled...

Something everyone should read…  dihard: Mainly because I don’t like being taken...

Feb 17th

Hilarious!  Happy Valentine’s Day!

Feb 14th

Update: Harvard Research to Be Free Online...

Feb 14th

Roger Clemens' Congressional Testimony

Pitcher Roger Clemens received a grilling before Congress yesterday over his alleged involvement in...

Feb 14th

Did you know...

… that a new power plant opens in China every four days?  From CNBC this morning. ~Amy 

Feb 14th

NY Times Round-up: Articles you should...

Michelle Obama Takes to the Trail.  A very well-written profile of a very impressive woman.  See...

Feb 14th

Re: The Mac Pro

As usual, Macs win the Mac vs. PC comparisons!   See the whole explanation here.  (via Marco) ...

Feb 14th

Woohoo!

Ok, this one’s pure geekery, and I really can’t wait!  

Feb 14th

Very Cool (or very geeky!)

Feb 14th

Straight-Talk Express

Here’s what Senator McCain had to say about waterboarding and harsh interrogation techniques...

Feb 14th

Harvard Proposal to Publish Scholarly...

Feb 13th

Bad News for Ethanol

Michael O’Hare wrote: “There is now more than good reason to expect that no biofuel...

Feb 13th

The Big Winner Last Night

MSNBC article: “Typically at a dog show such a Westminster, with 169 breeds and varieties...

Feb 13th

“We are bringing together Democrats, and Independents, and,...”
— Sorry Matt, I think I’m...

Feb 13th

Obama takes Virigina by quite a wide margin!  (Also,...

Feb 13th

Looking Ahead

Assuming Obama does as well as expected in today’s primaries, the media narrative seems to be...

Feb 12th

Jesus Beer

Wow. I’m guessing they’d really hate this product line then: ~ Matt 

Feb 12th

Report: Retailer halts sales of  'Jesus'...

Feb 12th

Happy National Pancake Day everyone!

Feb 12th

Rating the Pollsters

Speaking of polls, here’s a chart from Survey USA showing how accurate some of the big-name...

Feb 12th

I’ll admit it - I read this book.  I knew what I was...

Feb 12th

Potomac Primary Polls

Today is the so-called “Potomac Primary” (anyone else sick of the catchy names for these...

Feb 12th

I Guess My Mom Was Right...

…Diet Coke really is death in a can: Researchers have found a correlation between drinking...

Feb 11th

Hail to the Geek

First post! To kick things off, I had planned to discuss the delegate allocation rules for the...

Feb 11th

Can Sugar Substitutes Make You Fat?

Feb 11th

Did you know...

…that the average New Yorker produces 7.1 metric tons of greenhouse gases per year, while the...

Feb 11th

“Mr. Huckabee, on his way to an appearance on “The Tyra Banks...”
— My favorite part...

Feb 8th

Hi Matt!

Welcome to our blog!  See, this is fun!  Don’t worry, we can change the name and the domain...

Feb 8th