I haven’t yet read my copy of Michael Grunwald’s The New New Deal on the Obama stimulus, but I did just read Ryan Cooper’s review of it in The Washington Monthly, and it looks quite interesting. Unlike other journalists covering … Continue reading
Back-alley wizards discover the danger of overdoing it on magic potion drinking: The same guys have done quite a number of other entertaining short videos you can find on their YouTube channel. The also have a second channel with making-of … Continue reading
One of my favorite magazines is The Washington Monthly, which was started several decades ago by lawyer and JFK White House staffer Charlie Peters with the goal of reporting on what government actually does, not just what politicians talk about. … Continue reading
I can't believe I haven't posted this before. It's something that's been floating around the Internet for years now. Someone in management at Jack in the Box, a fast food chain with locations mainly west of the Mississippi, was driving … Continue reading
I've seen a host of different ways of showing on a map what parts of the country voted for Obama versus Romney. The most common simply shows each state colored red or blue bases on which way its electoral votes … Continue reading
In an article for The American Conservative, Bruce Bartlett, a lifelong conservative with impressive credentials (GOP congressional staffer, Heritage Foundation, Cato, positions in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, conservative writer and newspaper columnist), recounts how he … Continue reading
This appears to be the creation of a team of people who do crazy (and often stupidly dangerous) stunts with the goal of selling them on DVD and Blu-ray. Click through to YouTube for a link to their website if … Continue reading
This is a quite interesting half-hour panel discussion hosted by the Institute of Art and Ideas in Britain on Steven Pinker's 2011 book The Better Angels of Our Nature (which I reviewed in this earlier post). Participants include Pinker himself, … Continue reading
Offered without comment (unless this counts as a comment): by … Continue reading
Apologies for the déjà vu, but I made a big enough error in a previous post that I think it merits a second try. The following graphic, created by Steve Haroz, shows relative spending on scientific research and the military … Continue reading