By Dec 09,2011

Breaking “The Rules”

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. –Peter De Vries   Why don’t Americans know how to get and stay married? Whatever...

By Feb 25,2009

Sometimes mediocrity is A-OK

Since we were discussing mediocrity the other day, I figured I’d pass this along, from the AV Club’s Nathan Rabin: My affection for mediocre movies doesn’t extend to mediocre television....

By Feb 24,2009

Shining in the White House

Great one in The Onion yesterday: WASHINGTON—A little more than a month after the first family’s move to the White House, reports of strange happenings have continued to surface, with...

By Jan 13,2009

The Freaky Friday hypothesis

I see that Ross and Megan are revisiting Stephen Walt’s counterfactual history of the Israel-Palestine situation — the one Brose put paid to already. For those who thought such “What...