"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
The Big Thirst is excellent, I read it last year (after hearing an interview with the author by Terry Gross) and highly recommend it. Here’s a bit more about the water situation in India–which affects everybody, rich and poor alike,…
You should read Mr Pierce’s post for yourself, but this sentence at the end is awesome: And what makes me angry down to my soul is not that my children could have been Trayvon, but that, because of the way…
TSA wants you to know they’re still on the job and here’s what they found (fewer guns and more “artfully concealed” stuff) during the period between March 9th and 15th, 2012: Firearms: 16 loaded; 3 unloaded 5 artfully concealed prohibited item found at checkpoints Over at…
For those of us who spend time researching our forebears on Ancestry Island and other places in that particular archipelago, April 2nd is a big deal because that’s when the 1940 US Federal Census will be released online and for…
Gregory Djerejian at The Belgravia Dispatch views our 10+ years of war in Afghanistan and states his belief that the best we can hope for now is a “honest exit” that would acknowledge our mistakes and try to repair some of…
The ever thoughtful Frank Pasquale at Concurring Opinions looks at recent news: Two resignation letters rocked Wall Street and Silicon Valley this week. Greg Smith elegized a once-great Goldman Sachs, now reduced to “ripping eyeballs out” of clients. (The industry sure…