The New York Times had an intriguing article on the new SAT essay test earlier this week. It turns out that an adding machine can grade the exams -- no brains needed. In the next weeks, Dr. Perelman studied every graded sample SAT essay that the College Board made public. He looked at the 15 […]
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman continues his articles bashing America's health care system, ignoring his long-ago promise to offer solutions for Social Security. There was a brief flurry of outrage when Congress passed the 2003 Medicare bill. The news media reported on the scandalous vote in the House of Representatives: Republican leaders violated parliamentary […]
The correction of the day at The New York Times: A review of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., on Tuesday misstated the location of the site and reversed the order of two acts. The festival is two hours east of Los Angeles, not west. And Weezer preceded Bauhaus. Of course […]
This image hit the Internet yesterday, taken by Michel Yon in Mosul. Major Mark Bieger found this little girl after the car bomb that attacked our guys while kids were crowding around. The soldiers here have been angry and sad for two days. They are angry because the terrorists could just as easily have waited […]
I missed the milestone earlier this week, but on Monday The New York Times published Paul Krugman's 500th column. The indispensible Lying in Ponds noted that Krugman continues to bat 1.000 -- over the course of 500 columns Krugman has devoted not one to praise of a Republican nor criticism of a Democrat. Krugman would […]
The Camp Pendleton Marine who was captured on videotape shooting an Iraqi militant who was apparently feigning death won't face charges. Before the opening of the Nov. 8 assault on rebel-held Fallujah, Marine commanders told infantrymen that the rules of engagement allowed the use of deadly force against men of military age deemed holding hostile […]
Former New York Times reporter John McCandlish Phillips takes the "elite" commentariat to task over their outrageous rhetoric when it comes to the religious right. The piece is well worth a read, but I'd like to highlight the autobiographical portion of the article. I come at this with an insider/outsider vantage and with real affection […]
Today is International Respect for Chickens Day, sponsored by United Poultry Concerns. I think I'll have a chicken sandwich for dinner.
Sometimes you've just gotta love Fark for their headlines. For example, when word comes that the rock band Cream will be reuniting for a concert, the headline reads: Cream reunites in concert. For those of you under 40: Cream was Eric Clapton's old band. Under 30: Clapton was once a big rock star. And for […]
Today's Wall Street Journal has a brief but informative editorial [subscription required] for those on the left who continue to insist that there was some directive from the "highest levels of government" for the "torture" at Abu Ghraib prison. Private First Class Lynndie England -- infamously pictured with an Abu Ghraib detainee on a leash […]