Unqualified Offerings

Brad DeLong was implicitly puzzled last week why British Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg sticks in coalition with the Tories, ensuring the continuation of “expansionary austerity” policies that are delivering 100% of the austerity and 0% of the expansion. Brad:
Note that Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats in Britain could end this farce tomorrow, and give [...]

By Thoreau
Near the end of a post about standardized tests, Chad Orzel, who teaches at a fancy private school on the other side of the country, writes:
As someone who quite regularly has to teach introductory physics to students who struggle with it because they have a shaky grasp of tenth-grade math…
I find it [...]

By Thoreau
Looks like I won’t have to do any of the lectures on relativity that I was planning for next quarter.  Conservapedia has debunked it!
While all of them are a laugh, I especially love the credulity required to conclude that items 3, 4, 5, and 15 debunk Einstein.  The Conservapedia editors would fit in well [...]