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New Data Proves ACA Made of Candy!
January 07, 2014
You’re sitting in an airplane, and you suddenly hear the pilot’s amplified and disembodied voice. Look, he says, we don’t have a cockpit in this thing, with all those dials and knobs and whatchamawhosit, and there’s no place for me to look out a window ...

A Place to Say “I Don’t”
January 06, 2014
So . . . plantation weddings are a thing now. Or rather, they have been a thing for years, but they’re back in the news after a wildly shortsighted attempt by folk singer Ani DiFranco to host some kind of inspirational songwriting workshop at a plantation. Perhaps you remember ...

Fun and Games Ahead in 2014
January 02, 2014
If you thought 2013 was unpleasant, remember this one thing: at least it didn’t drop a mid-term election on us. This year’s big political event can’t be stopped, and will begin to take up twenty-three hours a day on the cable news channels no later than ...

The Year in Political Idiocy
December 30, 2013
On September 16th, hours after a man had killed a dozen or more people a couple of miles away at the Washington Navy Yard, a middle-aged fellow in shorts and a t-shirt lit a couple of firecrackers and threw them over the White House fence. An eyewitness likened his action, and ...

Pot, Meet Kettle
December 27, 2013
Self-awareness: it helps. Sort-of-recently discussing the contemporary political scene with Politico’s Glenn Thrush, Obama administration macher John Podesta was sufficiently obtuse to warn that his boss faced “a cult worthy of Jonestown in charge of one of the houses of ...

Enjoy Your G-Rated College Learning Experience
December 17, 2013
I’m going to dress you up like a “whore,” and then we’re going to do it in front of an audience—wait, no, you misunderstand. It’s educational. The strange case of Patricia Adler, a respected and widely published sociologist who teaches at the ...