I've checked the stats — this obscure website gets five visits on a record day. But it's still technically public, and this is as much of a soapbox as I need. So here's my announcement: I'm giving up cigarettes, starting today. Enough of that awful shit.
The enthusiasm with which you are following this story does not begin to match its importance. President Bush doesn't bother with vetoes; he simply declares his intention not to enforce anything he dislikes. Charlie Savage at The Globe reported recently that Mr. Bush had issued more than 750 "presidential signing statements" declaring he wouldn't do [...]
New York Times: Valerie Plame Wilson, the Central Intelligence Agency covert officer whose name was publicly disclosed three years ago, is shopping a book proposal among a small group of publishers, according to two people familiar with the project. Both people were granted anonymity because their publishing companies have signed nondisclosure agreements about the content [...]
Matthew Yglesias on why some crazy ideas are crazier than other crazy ideas: the Book of Mormon seems to me to be an unusually transparent fraud for a religious text. It's supposed to have been written in the ancient New World and yet it contains extended metaphors about sheep and shepherds. This is the sort [...]
I have never really had to compete for a job. All three of my high-school employers hired me on the spot. I worked for my university at a job for which I had to interview, but I can't imagine there were many more applicants than openings. I landed an internship on my first try during my junior [...]