J. Goodrich

This would, of course, be one of the outcomes if Ann Coulter‘s “modest proposal” about women losing their suffrage would be carried out. How does she reconcile being the voice of scorn and contempt towards women and its object, too? I’m glad I don’t know the answer to that, even if it’s all only a […]

That charming sentence was supposedly added to old maps when the map reached an area that nobody had any knowledge about. I love the idea! To leave off the technical work of putting in mountains and rivers and lakes and just to draw some fantastic dragons in the blind spots! Sadly, “here be the dragons” […]

The new Washington Post poll (via Kevin Drum) gives us more detail on what lies behind the low approval ratings the Congress has received recently. While 57% of the respondents disapprove of the job performance of the Democrats in Congress, ten percent more (for a total of 67%) disapprove of the job the Republicans in […]

John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has been busy giving speeches in the old and dissolute Europe. He addressed a meeting of bitter Thatcherians in Great Britain: Mr Bolton, who was addressing a fringe meeting organised by Lord (Michael) Ancram, said that the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was “pushing out” and […]

Clarence Thomas has written a memoir about his upbringing, his early life and his bitter Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991 which centered around the sexual harassment accusations levied against him by a former employee, Anita Hill. It is those hearings which most newspaper articles about his book focus on. Thomas described the hearings as […]

David Brooks, in his recent column on the Democratic strategy that would best please him, tells us that liberal/progressive bloggers are a mean-spirited bunch and that the Democratic politicians listen to them only at their own peril, and even then most reluctantly: The fact is, many Democratic politicians privately detest the netroots’ self-righteousness and bullying. […]

The polygamist Warren S. Jeffs has been convicted for being an accomplice to the rape of a 14-year old girl. His motives for doing this, he says, were religious. “That just makes him all the more the prophet,” said Isaac Wyler, who was kicked out of the church by Mr. Jeffs in 2004 but has […]

The GM workers are striking: About 73,000 General Motors workers began a nationwide strike in the United States yesterday, marking the first walkout against the carmaker for almost a decade. It is also the first nationwide strike by car workers in any company since 1976. The United Auto Workers Union, (UAW) representing General Motors factory […]

WHO APPROVES OF THE CONGRESS? Kate‘s post on the dismal approval rates of the Congress in the Reuters/Zogby poll made commenter Eric state: “…this poll would be more useful if we knew why people didn’t approve of Congress. ” Indeed. While we are waiting for that question to be added to all the polls it’s […]

SCRUTINIZING SCIENCE. John Ionniadis is an epidemiologist who has decided to focus his critical eye on the published medical research findings. And he has come up with something a little worrisome: According to Ionniadis, false findings may be the majority of published scientific results: These flawed findings, for the most part, stem not from fraud […]