Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
First, let me just say that if your only concern is entertainment value then putting Orly Taitz on the air is by definition justified.
However, if one wants to make a dumb idea go away, is it better to laugh at it, ignore it, or treat it as something worthy of serious scrutiny?  The academic [...]

By Thoreau
Radley Balko has done masterful work in battling the hideously corrupt Dr. Steven Hayne, who does autopsies for Mississippi prosecutors and always manages to find what prosecutors are looking for, even when other doctors can’t find it.  Last year, he was removed from his job when the authorities concluded that he was simply too [...]

By Thoreau
Before I start my old guy rant, let me acknowledge that some things never change:  My nephews and I played with transformers, and then they pretended that a hockey goal net was a fort and I was a dragon and they were knights.  That’s totally the same as when I was their age.
Anyway, my [...]

By Thoreau
John Juan Cole explains that the Farsi translation of “Sarah Palin” is “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.”
No doubt he’s playing up some parallels and downplaying some differences, but it’s nonetheless true that Red Province political factions around the world have a great deal in common.  Fortunately, we latte-sippers have a lot in common as well.  My former [...]