By • Apr 14,2009

Adventures in counterintuitivity

Or is it counterintuitiveness? Anyway, here’s a headline from Slate that would be shocking if, well, it wasn’t at Slate: “Was Limp Bizkit Really That Bad? Why the most hated...

By • Apr 13,2009

Millionaires are bad people

Will Wilkinson reminds me of a particularly egregious bit of stupidity from Matt Yglesias last week: It’s possible, of course, that Vikram Pandit really does find being a bank executive...

By • Apr 13,2009

Curbing the pirate menace

Over at the Plank, Michelle Cottle asks: But even if you don’t want a pirate sighting to result in the captain’s handing out Kalashnikovs to every able-bodied sailor on board,...

By • Apr 10,2009

Wanted

Some years ago, after the release of the original The Fast and the Furious, a few members of the idiocracy discovered that the distance between two traffic lights on a...

By • Apr 09,2009

Art imitating life

I’m pretty willing to give actors and musicians the benefit of the doubt in situations like this one: Put yourself in his shoes: it’s an early morning show, he’s been...

By • Apr 09,2009

Israel must stop building settlements

That is certainly the conventional wisdom. Elliott Abrams dissents. For him, anti-settlement advocacy is a distraction. Abrams writes that the expansion of the Israeli settler population basically entails population growth...