Month: April 2012

Why McCain Should Shut Up

Unfortunately, Open Left no longer exists and their articles seem to be unavailable on the intertubes. So, here is a cached version of a post Mike Lux wrote in January 2008, about a ride he took on Amtrak during the early stages...

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Why So Glum?

Paul Waldman is wise to provide all the appropriate caveats, but Joe Scarborough’s remarks on his MSNBC program this morning are fascinating anyway: “Nobody thinks Romney’s going to win. Let’s just be...

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Oh No, Guadalajara Won’t Do

I spent five semesters (two years and a summer) at Santa Monica College. I paid $105 a credit. California residents paid $5 a credit. It was a nominal fee. The real cost was books. That’s obviously changed: Santa Monica...

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Future to the Back in Tennessee

Why does Tennessee hate evolution? Narrowly, the trial was about challenging a newly passed Tennessee state law against teaching evolution or any other theory denying the biblical account of the creation of man…...

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