Obviously stupid ideas
Here's Chris Kelly on Baby Bush Einstein, putting Pepsi in your baby's bottle and running someone with Hillary's high negatives for president.
Frans de Waal responds to conservatives who try to shove bonobos back into the closet
World-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal is tired of reading the nonsense written by conservatives who are working hard to do the same thing to bonobos that they have been doing to climate change: change the facts to fit the politics. Why are conservatives embarrassed by the bonobo? Is it, perhaps, because…
Personal ads indicate you’re not as free as you want to believe
Are you sure you want to be "free"? Freedom is such a strange concept. I've never understood it in the context of personal decision-making. Americans claim to love "freedom," but how much freedom can you stand? Freedom implies occurrences that are unhinged from naturalistic laws. Freedom implies a mechanism that…
Don’t hold your breath that good things will just happen
E.g., Don’t hold your breath that the Democrats will save us. Or that anyone will. It might take something far more dramatic. Perhaps something revolutionary. But it's going to require far more than sitting around watching our TV's to make it happen. Marty Kaplan is a really smart media-reform and political-reform…
Do Bloggers Need to Unionize?
"What an odd question?" was my first thought when I read this column. Blogging, as a profession, has grown from geeky obscurity into a direct challenge to the journalism industry, even with bloggers' reputation for being unruly, unvetted, grammatically and syntactically insufficient, and above all, a disorganized mess. He discusses…