By • Jun 12,2008

The End of Anti-Semitism and Other Tales

The most effective way to begin an anti-Semitic rant is to preempt your musings with a refutation of all who you anticipate will call your courage and honesty ‘anti-Semitism.’ Chances...

By • Jun 12,2008

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

So, last night I watched the Roman Polanski documentary on HBO. Interesting stuff. A tragic figure, clearly done an injustice by a judge not looking out for the interests of...

By • Jun 12,2008

McEmpire

McCain would love to see US troops stationed peacefully in Iraq for the foreseeable future. To him it does not matter when they come home. What matters is that the...

By • Jun 11,2008

Section 8 Housing

That Hanna Rosin piece I blogged about last week is on the web now. I don’t have anything new to add to my previous post, but it’s so worth your...

By • Jun 11,2008

Correlation and causality

What’s the saying? “Correlation does not imply causality”? Keep that in mind when reading nonsense like this: Women have made less progress toward gender equality in the Middle East than...