We report. You don’t.

Scott Piatkowski passes along this gem from AlterNet: Fox News is refusing to air an anti-Alito ad “citing its lawyers’ contention that the spot is factually incorrect.” Is it shooting fish in a barrel to say: “gee, I wish Fox News would apply...

Write your own punchline

If it was fiction, you’d edit out the metaphor as way too obvious: After answering six questions and eager to sit down to dinner in the Great Hall of the People, Bush turned down a reporter who asked permission for a follow-up question. He then strode from the...

Canadian Social Research Links

The title says it all. Gilles Séguin, a retired federal public servant, has compiled an unbelievably vast collection of links on social research in Canada. From education to health care to First Nations to housing… it’s like a Yahoo! of Canadian social...

Yesterday’s alarmism is today’s common sense

Ah, nostalgia: it seems like such a short time ago that anyone who believed in fighting climate change — and meeting our commitments under the Kyoto Protocol — was an anti-business extremist who lived in some kind of socialist dream world. Time to add a...
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