By Pepper of the Daily Pepper Mascots are known for their bizarre behavior. Look at the Philly Phanatic. The Stanford Tree is now part of the Mascot Hall of Fame for getting caught drinking inside the costume. The Tree must have been running hog wild, for according to the police, she was able to drink […]
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This guy keeps it real
by Ben Adler, CampusProgress.org Am I a terrible person for finding this story hilarious? This Maryland Comptroller William Donald Schaefer is obviously both irredeemably sexist and going senile. Now that is a humorous set up. OK OK, he’s unfit for public office. But I’m looking forward to more of this stuff during his re-election campaign […]
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Weird things your government does: Valentine’s Day Edition
By Kate Health and Human Services, realizing enrollment numbers are dismal, decided a little Valentine’s Day plea might give seniors the extra kick they need to sign up for Part D. That’s right, HHS sent Valentines out to families asking them to pass the cards on to their elderly family members. The Valentineflier starts with […]
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Privacy Paranoia?
By Brian I’m gonna take a page from the Ezra/Kate book real quick. As one of them may or may not have noted in the past month (I’m an avid reader, guys…I swear), a new and controversial program has been forced upon clinical laboratories in New York. The gist is simple and sounds pretty benign: […]
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Amsterdamming
So…I guess this means…goodbye? Well, kinda. I’ll be in Amsterdam for the next week, along with Jeralyn, Amanda, and Lindsay (and they say all bloggers are guys!). Information of the trip is here — what I’m getting (a trip), what I’m giving (a blogad), and where I’m going (the Netherlands). I’ll be posting some, but […]
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Chickens and Eggs in New Orleans
More than five months after Hurricane Katrina — and almost five months of political verbiage and posturing and name-calling and blame-mongering — New Orleans is still a wreck. Two thirds of the Big Easy’s pre-Katrina residents continue to live in exile, only a handful of schools have reopened, only a third of the city’s former […]
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Doing Good Jobs, But Losing Them
WIXOM, Mich. — From the outside, the Ford assembly plant here, about 40 minutes west of Detroit, isn’t much to look at — a sprawling, bland mid-1950s monument to an architecturally forgettable decade. On the inside, though, Wixom is a thing of beauty, a marvel of American production. Most auto factories turn out the same […]
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Second Souter?
Alito’s turning out to be a helluva lot more liberal than we thought…
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An Opt-In Revolution?
Actually, why isn’t this a good idea? If it was understood that the default treatment assumption was Do Not Resuscitate/Intubate and you had to consciously opt-in to a different standard by providing a living will or offering written instructions at an earlier date, wouldn’t that be better for everyone? There’s no cost to claiming a […]
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Gore’s Speech
The hubbub over Gore’s latest speech is really rather baffling. I’ve seen no compelling counterarguments to the actual points he raised (check Joe Gandelman for more on that), just breathless astonishment that Gore dared criticize American policies while on Saudia soil. It’s weird. I had no idea that our culture’s devotion to free speech and […]