The first mountaineer to climb the highest point on Earth died today. It’s well-known that Sir Edmund was the leader of the expedition that first reached the summit of Mount Everest, and that he and his Sherpa guide, and lifelong… Continue Reading
A Constitutional crisis is brewing. A real one, this time. Nearly lost in the news of all the recent elections was a veto by President Bush on December 28. Bush wanted more money to go to the military, and didn’t… Continue Reading
I was a little surprised at the results of the reader poll about the biggest event in 2007. The vote split a lot of ways. Two votes for “Race for the White House.” Two votes for “Virginia Tech Massacre.” Two… Continue Reading
I’m going to keep track of the estimated delegates gathered by each candidate. It will appear in the right-hand sidebar. Looking at the delegate count, Obama’s victory does not seem as decisive as press reports would have you believe. And… Continue Reading
CNN runs a program called American Morning, anchored by a handsome and steely-eyed newsreader named John Roberts. Mr. Roberts, however articulate his voice and pleasing his on-camera demeanor, is not a historian or even apparently a follower of politics. He… Continue Reading
This sort of thing drives me up a wall. It’s a shame and a waste. In nearby Barstow, a woman died because some assholes were irresponsible pet owners. The dogs that killed her did what they had been taught to… Continue Reading
In a single column, right-wing columnist and author Dinesh D’Souza manages to smugly attack atheists and libertarians; apparently we’re all juvenile alcoholics who hypocritically sing carols (dovetailing into the utterly false “there are no atheists” meme). After the primaries are… Continue Reading
To the left is an analysis of a thirty-minute broadcast cycle on CNN Headline News. As you can see, you get about six minutes of actual news. What you get instead would be most charitably described as “soft news” or… Continue Reading
Even if he is, you may not want to post a sarcastic Dilbert comic strip that accuses him of it. This guy’s bosses got so mad at being impliedly called drunken lemurs that they reveiwed surveillance tapes to figure out… Continue Reading