By • May 01,2008

Nailed It

Mr. Millman succinctly wraps up just how poorly Barack Obama’s damage control has been thus far in the Reverend Wright Affair. Obama has had two separate chances to disavow Wright’s...

By • May 01,2008

Welcome to Earth

In comments [scroll down], Jesse Mazer has pressed me on how my conception of ethics and suffering applies to “intelligent aliens.” if we met a species of intelligent aliens, you...

By • Apr 30,2008

Lieberman for Veep?

I know and respect Stu Rothenberg a great deal–he has a keen political mind and the Rothenberg Political Report (which he produces with an assist from Nathan Gonzales) is a...

By • Apr 30,2008

W.A.R.E.Z.

Stands for, y’know, We Await Radical-life Extension’s Zarathustra. I see Sonny’s on board, praying for the Great Noontide. Then there’s this guy: As Kevin Warwick gently squeezed his hand into...

By • Apr 30,2008

Michael Lewis: Sports super genius?

Michael Lewis is, of course, not a sports super genius, but he is without a doubt the most important sports writer of the last half decade; Moneyball changed the face...

By • Apr 30,2008

Beyond Me…

Mr. Poulos is, I think, right when he says that mixing man and ape is probably a bad idea. But, if I could quote one of America’s wisest sages, “God-Schmod,...