At a Salon.com article entitled "The corporate financiers are wrong," Joe Conason says the obvious about "free market" fanatics because it is necessary to say the obvious about "free market" fanatics, given that they've been so successful at promulgating their drivel. What is the obvious thing we now need to…
Care to participate in looniness rather than just expose it and bait its defenders? Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. What's the point? General silliness. But if you need an extra excuse for causalness today, here it is.
In this month's Wilson Quarterly, you can read Tom Vanderbilt's delightful story about a Dutch traffic engineer who made a town safer by making the people feel unsafe. In the last few years, however, one traffic engineer did achieve a measure of global celebrity, known, if not exactly by name, then…
I suddenly had this question pop up in my head - what does Condi Rice actually think about Sarah Palin? What would she say if you asked her? Everybody talks about Obama and the racism he is facing, that his academic achievements and community engagements are discarded as hot air,…
Quote of the day: "There are no Libertarians in recessions." This quote accompanies a terrific article.