Man, last week’s episode of This American Life (aka, Radio Programs White People Like) is hard to listen to. I don’t have much to say about it, except that it’s a pretty harsh indictment of the current administration. Some of the behavior described in the (one-sided) reporting—like refusing citizenship to widows of Americans whose husbands [...]

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From an online chat with Charlotte Allen (remember her?):Washington: “They Scream, They Swoon. How Dumb Can Blacks Get?” “They Scream, They Swoon. How Dumb Can Men Get?” “They Scream, They Swoon. How Dumb Can Latinos Get?” Ha ha! Very funny. I’m laughing my head off. Inside. Get a clue.

Charlotte Allen: Is this a compliment or [...]

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In a Washington Post Op-Ed, Charlotte Allen seems to think that women are morons:I swear no man watches “Grey’s Anatomy” unless his girlfriend forces him to. No man bakes cookies for his dog. No man feels blue and takes off work to spend the day in bed with a copy of “The Friday Night Knitting [...]

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If you were more interested in the Spygate stuff than the TV-14 stuff, you may be interested to know that Gregg Easterbrook has another column up today, going into a little more detail on why new stories are popping up this week, and what the Patriots are alleged to have done. I dunno, I still [...]

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“Descendant of Davy Crockett, 5, kills 445-lb bear”I’m not even going to read the story—it couldn’t possibly live up to the title.

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Certainly it would be terribly easy to rush toward some sort of instant judgment based on what we think we all knew about Taylor and the sort of life he once, and for all we know, still led. But really, we know nothing at the moment, and until we do, “may he rest in peace” [...]

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Caps’ Semin Still an Unknown Quantity

Kudos to you, unknown Washington Post editor. You made many people giggle.

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This article on the psychological effect of an artificial heart is totally fascinating.Much of the original artificial heart work was driven by the technological optimism born of the space program. Some of the current work is driven by the idea that our brains and bodies are separate entities. But now, in light of Houghton and [...]

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