Tycho Brahe’s beloved pet was a drunken moose

More excellence in journalism, this time from the Times.  This story is great for several reasons:
1) The title
2) The fact that the title is based off of two sentences in a story primarily about other things.
3) The rest of the story
4) Seriously, a pet moose!  Outside of Alaska!  Awesome.

Surviving the Obama Comedy Crisis: A Report From the Front Lines

This report represents some fine investigative journalism by the NYT.  Most political comedians seem surprisingly unworried.

Universal Grade Change Form

Found here.  I’m seriously thinking about using this.
The problem is that the professors who give me bad grades are also the professors with no sense of humor.

Paying Dr. Evil

Its easy to find $100 billion dollars in Zimbabwe.
The story of hyperinflation, told through pictures.

John Sidney McCain

Isn’t there something a little… off… about a middle name like that?  A little… un-American?  My friends, is it possible that we will wake up to find our next President is really a secret Australian??

The Politics of Personality

Christopher Hitchens argues that the personality and character of a president matter as much as his current stand on issues.  He equates McCain’s defects in these areas with those of Bill Clinton.

The Strange Death of American Liberalism

The Strange Death of American Liberalism by H.W. Brands purports to explain why LBJ-style liberalism no longer has any real influence on American governace.
He is right to note that its influence has faded away.  No matter how many times Bill Clinton is labelled a tax-and-spend liberal, the facts remain that he balanced the budget, reformed [...]

Things younger than John McCain

A great theme for a blog.  My personal favorite highlights our second-smallest state:
49 of our 50 Governors are younger than John McCain.  Way to buck the trend, Ruth Ann Minner of Delaware!

Baghdad vs. College

War? What war?
I imagine I  think about it more than most of my fellow college students.
But I’m guilty as charged: Facebook is a bigger part of my life than the war. 

Ethiopia enters the 21st century

Seeing that title, I was expecting an article detailing all the ways in which Ethiopia was modernizing and westernizing; I was prepared for a bit of a surprise, as I keep reasonably abreast of world affairs and had not heard of many such developments there.
But in reality, our friends at Le Monde are trying to [...]