By • Aug 18,2008

Richly rewarded

Set in the muted chaos of New Delhi, where motorized auto-rickshaws, cows, luxury cars and begging urchins mingle in the hot, dusty streets without much incident (though not always without...

By • Aug 17,2008

That's the whole point

This paragraph over at the HuffPo is as amusing as it is frustrating: Well, I thought I would bang on about this for a while, let’s say as long as...

By • Aug 15,2008

One more Olympics note

How should the “winner” of the medal race be counted? Only by gold medals won, as the ChiComs want, or by total medals, as the USOC appears to want? This...

By • Aug 15,2008

Cheaters and sticklers

Over at Slate, Emily Bazelon has this to say about playing by the rules: The cheaters have to learn to play fair, and the sticklers have to figure out when...

By • Aug 15,2008

Feelings…Nothing More than Feelings

Hillary’s name is being phonily placed in fake nomination, for the crap reason that not only Every Voice Must Be Heard (itself already a degenerate version of Gore’s Every Vote...