Veteran’s Day today. I was surprised to find the library closed when MSU had been open, and so was unable to return the Great Lectures CDs. This series is on Mediterranean religion, and it’s okay. More appropriate to the holiday, the previous lecture I borrowed was on WWI, and that was pretty good. As a […]
Okay, so Tea Party darlings aren’t always the most sophisticated politicians. They get facts wrong, they make enemies more often than they make friends, they positively reject the very notion of accommodation and compromise upon which democracy depends. They spout hateful rhetoric and downright wacky ideas so often that it’s almost ceased to be funny. […]
testing the adage
the dangers of selling privilege
Prosecute our last hope for accountability?
Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell, in formal debate with Democratic candidate Chris Cooms, shocked an audience of law students and their professors by denying that the US Constitution imposes a separation of church and state. Later attempts to explain away the gaffe as merely a demand to see where the precise phrase “separation of […]
What does California pay for a happy ending?
the cost of tax reduction at all costs
startling geophysics hypothesis
a moral hazard of philanthropy, too close to home