In my series of posts on the whole melamine poisoning issue recently you might recall me breaking off the term “e Coli conservatives” in talking about how our regulatory function has been […]
You remember me yarping about “e Coli conservatives,” right?
Time for legislatures to act on behalf of women
Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that gender discrimination must have occurred within 180 days of filing the complaint – even if the discriminiation occurred gradually over years or decades. My fellow […]
The looming macro-succession crisis
I was reading a Seattle Times story earlier today on how men in their 30s are earning less than their fathers did. An interesting story top to bottom, but the concluding section […]
Who can Fox News get to pad their ill-fated Dem debate?
With the latest news that of the current 2008 Democratic presidential candidates, only rantin’ grandpa Mike Gravel, kindler gentler racist Joe Biden, and “Peace Gnome” Dennis Kucinich are bothering to show up […]
Women need not apply
By Robert Silvey The Roberts/Bush Supreme Court has delivered another crushing blow to women. In a 5–4 decision, with new justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito in the antiegalitarian majority, the court […]
What fresh hell is this? Our newest scholar/rogue…
By Rori Black The Scholar and Rogue on our masthead is Dorothy Parker (1893 – 1967). Dorothy Parker is best known for her caustic wit as a writer, poet, critic, and a […]
The words we use…
When I was in the sixth grade, I read my first full book of poetry (I don’t count A Child’s Garden of Verses by R.L. Stevenson because my grandmother read pretty much […]
We broke Iraq and can’t pay for it
By Martin Bosworth For those who have interest, I’ve posted my thoughts on the hard truth that we have failed in Iraq over at my LJ. It’s not pretty, but nothing dealing […]
Talking with Persia, spreading out the carpet
By Robert Silvey Shortly after 470 BCE, following years of triumph as the leader of wartime Athens, Themistocles was accused of treachery against the city. He escaped the death sentence and traveled […]
The consumer culture of self-containment
By Martin Bosworth Matt Zoller Seitz yesterday linked to Boston University professor Ray Carney’s voluminous film and media Web site, who in turn had posted an excerpted essay from Mark Edmundson’s “Why […]
