Beginning of Delerium
2013-06-08 – In a rare solo excursion, I drove down to the University of Chicago to see my cousin David Satter’s documentary film Age of Delirium, which is based on his book by […]
Tag Archives: News
Instant Satisfaction Industrial Complex
2013-05-06 – WTF? Did you read about the high school soccer goalie that punched a referee who gave him a yellow card? The ref died. And the goalie’s life, […]
Terror Beneficiaries
2013-04-17 – The hours of uncertainty after an event like the Boston Marathon bombing bring up an interesting question—that is: what is terrorism? Here we had an event that created […]
First or Second
2012-12-17 – The massacre in the Sandy Hook elementary school has people clamoring for action. Ban guns! Change the way stories are covered! And there is merit in both. But […]
Existential Sneeze
2012-08-29 – My eyes water a lot at this time of year. I used to have allergies in the late summer and early fall, but when I was in my […]
Akin Breakin’ Heart
2012-08-24 – Before the Todd Akin story gets washed away by the next outrage, I’d like to make a couple of points. First has to do with the complete absurdity […]
Mars Hoax Bares Warming Truth
2012-08-14 – After a week of increasingly implausible denials, NASA today admitted that its dramatic reports about landing a space probe on the planet Mars were a hoax. NASA Administrator […]
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