Not With a Bang But a Whimper (In the Press)

Writing for Slate, Tim Noah nails exactly why the possible destruction of the Earth later this year when the Large Hadron Collider is switched on isn't getting much attention in the press: I can well understand why the Times doesn't want to give sustained big play to the possibility that the world will end on or around Labor Day. In addition ...

Kurt Loder on ‘Sicko’: Heavily Doctored

I was a bit (pleasantly) surprised to see this article by Kurt Loder. Loder takes a critical look at Moore's latest film, 'Sicko' and finds it lacking in terms of facts. Michael Moore may see himself as working in the tradition of such crusading muckrakers of the last century as Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair — writers whose ...

Caption Contest Winners

The Out Of This World Edition OTB Caption ContestTM is now over. I had to be brutal in picking the winners, there were many deserving captions. (AP Photo/Justin Norton) The Winners: First: Cowboy Blob - Mister Kucinich! Your ride is here! Second: Kenny - All your ISS are belong to us. Third(tie): Gollum - Gork blew a .14, proving that there IS ...

Health Care Spending

In the comments to this post (of all things about the spectacle that is Paris Hilton going to serve 40 days) commenter Anderson pointed to this post by Kevin Drum. It is a short post and quoting only a part of it would likely not do justice to the post, so here it is in its entirety, THE REAL PROBLEM....What ...

Health Care and Tribalism

I wanted to touch on Brad DeLong's post on health care that Dave Schuler pointed too a few days ago, but I was a bit busy at the time. First off, I think DeLong, or more accurately his graduate student, is setting up two fallacies. First there is the either/or fallacy. Either you belong to this tribe, or you ...