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A friend of mine once insisted that laws against same-sex marriage don’t reduce the rights of gay men and women because they have the exact same right as straight men and women to marry someone of the opposite sex. I … Continue reading
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At the Time Magazine website, reporter Michael Grunwald (the author of a book mentioned here Friday) laments bad reporting about the current budget negotiations: It’s really amazing to see political reporters dutifully passing along Republican complaints that President Obama’s opening … Continue reading
A hidden-camera show in Brazil stages an elaborate prank involving a fake elevator: The lights go out, a little girl with a doll enters through a secret panel (which we can see via an infrared camera), and the lights come … Continue reading
There’s a lot of talk of “filibuster reform,” but the Democratic proposal could be more accurately described as restoring the filibuster. The Senate has traditionally permitted unlimited debate and discussion of a bill before the final vote was taken. As … Continue reading
Irish comic Dara O’Briain is one of the funniest people around. Here he take on the subject of young people. (The usual modern comedy warning applies to those who are hypersensitive to naughty language.) by … Continue reading
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