By • Aug 20,2009

Just tell your kids no

There’s a relatively absurd New York Times piece about a bunch of whiny parents who can’t control their whiny kids (wonder where they get it from) when the ice cream...

By • Aug 19,2009

Why doesn’t FIFA do anything?

(Warning: soccer post coming up.) The Sports Guy has a pretty great column about the U.S. team’s latest loss to Mexico in Mexico City. You should give it a read....

By • Aug 18,2009

Department of esoteric allusions

From a New Yorker profile of Elon Musk, CEO of electric carmaker Tesla: Although more than a quarter of Tesla’s employers come from the Big Three, and although the company...

By • Aug 18,2009

Can reform cure Krugman-itis?

Krugman-itis is terrible. I should know. I used to suffer from it myself. When I was younger, I used to believe that Democrats were always at a disadvantage because they...

By • Aug 17,2009

Dr. Obama in 800 words

I was actually glad to see that Barack Obama had written an op-ed about healthcare reform for the Sunday Times. I haven’t paid serious attention to all the talk about...