By • May 11,2009

Defending Star Trek

A film that got positive reviews from 95% of the critics hardly needs any help from me. But I thought it was notable that a few prominent critics disliked what...

By • May 07,2009

Obama, herald of change

In the words of the certainly-not-conservative Jeffrey Rosen, Barack Obama is trying to split the difference on torture. He wants to move forward–no messy dwelling on the Bush-Cheney era–except that...

By • May 07,2009

x=3.5

Sonny, shouldn’t your sample equations that have integers as their solutions? Anyhow, on the subject of teacher accountability, let me throw two links your way.  First, there’s an article in...

By • May 07,2009

Dept. of really dumb analogies

In April 1858, perhaps as many as 700 black settlers—about 14 percent of the blacks then living in California—began an exodus from San Francisco to Victoria, British Columbia, 750 miles...