Month: February 2014

I am starting to be a little obsessed about True Detective, and Alyssa Rosenberg isn’t helping. Mainly, I am concerned that we’ll never discover the truth, and that that is basically the point. We haven’t seen...

OK, I have a friend who might be among the dreaded 2.x million who will leave the workforce because of ObamaCare. He works at a hospital as an OR tech–a job he keeps mainly for the health benefits!–and he makes and...

Who were the five worst presidents in American history? Should they, collectively, have a holiday of their own?

If you are a scientist, what are you supposed to make of the fact that one of the two major political parties in the United States has grown stone-cold stupid? Example one: Education in science will be opt-out in Missouri, if a...

I wonder if the cohort that watches Fox New Sunday still thinks that Karl Rove has any credibility. The producers of the show must think so, since they keep inviting Rove back. But his pronouncements are increasingly absurd....