The Scratching Post

In line at Albertsons yesterday, I saw Cosmo had this headline. I think it has something to do with Beowulf, but the truth of the matter is ...

Living things respond to conditioning. What happens to a society conditioned on a popular culture filled with things like this? It us...

Would you? Der Spiegel has the standard article and photo essay today of crying grandmas from Gaza and, for me, it was the last straw. O...

Right now, I'm listening to Paul Johnson's Intellectuals . It's a glorious polemic of anecdotes, character analyses and flat-out...

Dean continues the rationale for a single-payer health care system.

Go check out W C Varones' Remedial Investing .

In the middle ages, noblemen rode around on horses, eating good food. Peasants rolled in the mud*. Here, a noblewoman rides along with a...

Clicking around the Wampanoag site yesterday, I came across the history of their tribe , which starts with the standard Indian self-pity par...

The Wampanpoags were the Indians that shared noms with the Pilgrims on that very first Thanksgiving. You can find their website here  and a ...

A friend turned me on to a different video in this series, but as it was tied to Halloween, this seemed more appropriate to post now. I...

Over at Ricochet, Pejman Yousefzadeh notes how a New York community college is cutting hours for teachers to get them under the 30 hour lim...

Il Duce was the father of fascism. He defined it in his lovely little book, Fascism . You can find it at that link. Benito's intellectua...

Our favorite little fascist intellectual, Robert Reich has penned lovely piece on why we should stop worrying about the deficit and simply ...

... otherwise known as War of the Robots . Yesterday afternoon, we went out to our local multiplex and took in the new Bond move, Skyfall ...

So one of my relentlessly political lefty friends on Facebook posted something about the demise of Hostess. Apparently, the CEO (or was it t...

Oh yeah, baby. Now we're really talking . Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says he believes the U.S. debt ceiling should be elimina...

While noodling a post looking back on 2012 as a year of ignorance and denial, I Googled "single mother poverty" and found this sit...