Current Affairs

Chunks, Checking Out, and Chumbawamba Is this a good or bad thing? a study of schoolchildren found that being overweight increased the risk of being the target of bullying by 63 percent [http://health.yahoo.com/news/healthday/bulliestargetobesekids.html]. That sucks, but I prefer that thin bullies take care

Little League to Uchitel Strap on your boots and get ready to run. Little League starts this week, and I'm the coach. Between today and June 30th: 29 games, practices, and coaches meetings. And that's just one kid. I have four other kids in four different

ACORN This ACORN stuff is absolutely hilarious, if it weren't for our President's close ties. The couple on the left posed as a pimp and his prostitute. She's believable. But him? Come on. When did Doogie Howser rip off the set of Joseph and

A Futuristic History Many readers of this book have probably heard of the United States or its alternative name, "America." For many years, it reigned as the most powerful nation in the world, both economically and militarily. Like Rome (studied in Chapter Three), historians differ about when it

Like W.C. Fields Criticizing a Drunk Wow, the great Russian bear roars at the United States, but not for its capitalism: for its Marxism [http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-american_capitalism-0]. > It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into

Bulk Up for that SAT, Bobby Yesterday, I wrote (a too lengthy post) about Sam Anderson's "The Benefits of Distraction." This was one of the more interesting passages from the article [http://nymag.com/news/features/56793/index4.html], but I couldn't fit it

Studebaker and Other Corpses In the wake of pending plans to discontinue Pontiac and Saturn, the Mental Floss Blog takes a look at ten discontinued models [http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/25613#more-25613]. Nice prose, nice assortment of pictures. Excerpt: > Started as the George N. Pierce Company in

Bubba Cometh While at my parents' on Mother's Day, my father told me to check out this article at The Economist [http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13528224] . It's about a new line of business: prison consulting. Or, "How to