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by Ben Adler, CampusProgress.org I know its old news that the President is prone to malapropisms but I can’t help finding it embarassing when the leader of the free world says ”I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to […]

by Ben Adler, CampusProgress.org But there is something wrong with Slate‘s well-intentioned “Slate 60” list of top charitable donors. Not all “charities” are alike after all. Who tops the list? Cordelia Scaife May. Yes, that is Scaife as in Scaife the rightwingers whose foundations give to such “charitable” organizations as Heritage and so forth… I’m […]

Also unneccessary. And they say NASA’s got its priorities wrong. Now I wonder if I can get the FDA to ask me to investigate whether the digestive benefits of eating poison berries outweigh the health risks. –Brian

Desire and satisfaction levels inversely correlated. File this one under “totally unneccesary studies.” Hmmm. I wonder what age bracket the principal investigators of the actual paper fit into. –Brian P.S. I checked. They’re mainly middle-aged men. Weird.

by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math In my past life I was a baseball stathead. After having an unhealthy appetite for the game, I read Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, and toyed momentarily with the idea of chucking my current life path and instead trying to work in the front office for […]

By Ezra So am I to assume Mickey Kaus will be first in line? And who wrote the post under this one? Why doesn’t it have a title?

by Ben Adler, CampusProgress.org Once you start guilt-by-associationing you can’t stop. To wit: Bill Clinton has decided to grace the annual Association of Alternative Newsweeklies conference with a speech. I eagerly await an editorial from The Nation denouncing the Village Voice, et al, as sellouts to that neo-liberal appeaser 🙂

By Kate Always pay your prostitutes. (warning: blood and guts when you click on the photos inside the post)

Shakes here… Ladies, if you’re going to get pregnant, I recommend not letting the pregnancy endanger you in any way. Oh, and also, make sure your fetus is perfectly healthy, too. The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will consider the constitutionality of banning a type of late-term abortion, teeing up a contentious issue for a […]