Anyone familiar with The Onion already knows the publisher of this sad story. The headlines are often the best part of the story, and that's not to sleight the stories. Or check out this story: "MLB No Longer Accepting New Players" I don't know how those guys do it so well…
Who's the best person to lecture China on a recent test that suggests China's interest in militarizing outer space? According to James Fallows, it's not Dick Cheney.
Marty Kaplan comments on a report by Glenn Greenwald from the National Press Club this week. One panelist, Newsweek's Richard Wolffe responded to criticism by bloggers that journalists are not doing their job: Our role is to ask questions and get information. It's not a chance for the opposition to…
Carl Sagan's new article can be found in the March/April 2007 edition of Skeptical Inquirer. It is titled "Science's Vast Cosmic Perspective Eludes Religion." Well, okay. As you know, Carl Sagan died of pneumonia in 1996. This "new" article was actually prepared by Ann Druyan, based on lectures Sagan gave…
Not very well, according to this article from Salon.com. Here's an excerpt: Perhaps most troubling, the Army seems bent on denying that the stress of war has caused the soldiers' mental trauma in the first place. (There is an economic reason for doing so: Mental problems from combat stress can require…