February 2012
7 posts
What Jeremy Lin Teaches Us About Talent →
The NFL combine and draft are practically useless when it comes to picking talented players:
Flipping a coin is the apt metaphor, as the higher [draft] picks proved better only 52 percent of the time. The [NFL] teams beat randomness, but barely.
Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend on... →
Support for Republican candidates, who generally promise to cut government spending, has increased since 1980 in states where the federal government spends more than it collects. The greater the dependence, the greater the support for Republican candidates.
So. Stupid.
The Making of Gay Marriage's Top Foe →
So she believes that, given how difficult it will be to get good social-science data on what same-sex marriage means for children, it’s best just to assume that it’s bad for them.
Ugh.
Obama, Explained →
Activists Fight Green Projects, Seeing U.N. Plot →
Former Senator Phil Gramm says we’re a “nation of whiners”…I think we’re closer to a “nation of idiots”.
Maine Residents Struggle to Heat Their Homes →
Dangers of Fracking →
Really nicely designed page highlighting the problems with hydraulic fracturing.
January 2012
5 posts
Against the Myth of American Decline →
Arizona's 'banned' Mexican American books →
The further message of this punishment, then, appears to be that the state and the district do not want students to study Mexican American studies, but they do want them to clean toilets.
Oh Arizona, why must you continually shame me….
How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His Critics →
Bitter Politics of Envy? →
December 2011
2 posts
Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? →
Short answer? No.
The Education of the Packers’ Aaron Rodgers →
November 2011
3 posts
When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality? →
Rather than workable solutions, my party is offering low taxes for the currently rich and high spending for the currently old, to be followed by who-knows-what and who-the-hell-cares. This isn’t conservatism; it’s a going-out-of-business sale for the baby-boom generation.
World power swinging back to America. →
The Social Graph is Neither →
We have a name for the kind of person who collects a detailed, permanent dossier on everyone they interact with, with the intent of using it to manipulate others for personal advantage - we call that person a sociopath. And both Google and Facebook have gone deep into stalker territory with their attempts to track our every action.
October 2011
2 posts
Hershey Exchange Student Warnings Were Ignored -... →
A group of exchange students sponsored by the State Department spent thousands of dollars to experience life in the United States, but what they got were arduous shifts in a factory and no help when they complained.
Steve Jobs of Apple Dies at 56 - NYTimes.com →
September 2011
6 posts
Just Look at What You Did! - NYTimes.com →
An Icy Political Vision - NYTimes.com →
San Francisco Nudity Restrictions Provoke the... →
Egghead and Blockheads - NYTimes.com →
I watched one of the Republican debates recently and I honestly wanted to cry.
Some of Sarah Palin's Ideas Cross the Political... →
August 2011
1 post
Ground Zero Now - Interactive Feature -... →
July 2011
21 posts
Apps vs the Web » Matt Legend Gemmell →
Schemes of My Father: Men's Lives: GQ →
Trade: The sex trade imbalance | The Economist →
Shift by Clinton Helped Push Obama to Take a... →
What Made This University Scientist Snap? →
Rethinking Objective Journalism →
The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death →
Horrifying.
The Stigma →
Press X for Beer Bottle: On L.A. Noire →
Flacking for Big Pharma →
Aboard the L Train, Luncheon Is Served -... →
Clues Gradually Led to the Location of Osama bin... →
Online Poker’s Big Winner - NYTimes.com →
The Spam Factory's Dirty Secret →
Preet Bharara Takes on Wall Street →
Everything you know about the Civil War is wrong -... →
The Neverending Nightmare of Amanda Knox →
Once Greece goes… →
A really interesting analysis of the economic situation in Europe, especially with respect to the potential default in Greece.
The Master’s as the New Bachelor’s - NYTimes.com →
Facebook saved my son's life: My social network... →
Utah’s Liquor Laws - Relaxed, but Still Peculiar -... →
Stiff drinks and doubles are illegal in Utah. Bars and restaurants must use meters on their liquor bottles to make sure they do not pour more than 1.5 ounces at a time. Other liquors can be added to cocktails in lesser amounts, not to exceed 2.5 ounces of liquor in a drink, as long as they are poured from bottles clearly marked “flavoring.”
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
4 posts
How the Notion That a College Degree Is... →