Mar 12,2007
Globalization’s Other Face
So the Internet has changed everything about globalization, but did we mention it makes a mean gazpacho?
Mar 05,2007
Haiku Brew: Bald Patrician Celebrity Edition
PATERNITY LAWSUITS Trans-fats taste so good I cannot think for myself We need laws, not choice! — KLS BRITNEY’S NEW DO News most important: Wars, pestilence, famine or A newly...
Mar 05,2007
Apophis Now
Odds of dying in a plane crash: 1 in 5,051. Odds of dying in a car accident: 1 in 237. Odds that asteroid Apophis will strike Earth in 2036: 1...
Mar 04,2007
Ann Coulter’s Lesson on Good Attention vs. Bad Attention
“I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the...
Feb 25,2007
Harvard’s Madame President, Fit to Season
In the May-June 2003 issue of Harvard magazine, Drew Gilpin Faust wrote an article titled “Living History,” detailing her personal investigation into a letter she wrote to President Eisenhower as a nine-year-old...
Feb 25,2007
Ban Lawmaking, Not Spanking
Congress has been out of session for a week, and I feel better already. It doesn’t matter which party is in power — late at night, when I stroll home...