They tell children of divorce…
…that they should not keep hoping their parents will get back together. But this story may encourage a whole batch of children to not give up on the prospect.
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Those sluggish hunter-gatherers
Can this really be true?: The research team behind the study, led by Herman Pontzer of Hunter College in New York City, along with David Raichlen of the University of Arizona and Brian M. Wood of Stanford measured daily energy … Continue reading →
James Holmes’ psychiatrist and the duty to warn
James Holmes’ psychiatrist Dr. Lynne Fenton warned the university’s threat assessment team that he might be dangerous, and, tragically, nothing was done to stop him—at least, nothing effective: Sources have told KMGH-TV that the threat assessment team never had a … Continue reading →
Gymnasts’ bodies: form follows function
The bodies that excel in different sports are not randomly chosen, they are selected by the needs of the activity. One would never mistake a professional basketball player for a jockey (except maybe the highly unusual Spud Webb, and at … Continue reading →
The 50 greatest movies of all time?
Boy, I really really really don’t agree with this list of the 50 greatest, as decreed by 846 critics, programmers, academics and distributors asked by the British Film Institute. Beginning with their #1, “Vertigo,” a ho-hum Hitchcock movie with really … Continue reading →
Planning ahead: Obama and the suburbs
I’ve been one of many people who have long said that in an Obama second term, unconstrained by the need for re-election, Obama would be free to undertake the more radical parts of his agenda. And it won’t really matter … Continue reading →
Of course, Harry Reid’s tax returns are an open book
Not: [Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi]…are among hundreds of senators and representatives from both parties who refused to release their tax records. Just 17 out of the 535 members of Congress released their most recent tax forms or provided some … Continue reading →
Cruz and Obama
Ted Cruz and Barack Obama: compare and contrast. They are both the children of mixed-race (if you count Cuban or Hispanic as a race) couples, although Cruz’s parents stayed together and Obama’s did not. Assuming Cruz wins election to the … Continue reading →
New polls: Obama’s way ahead in swing states…
…or is he? In polls, it’s the sampling, stupid,
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…cruises.
Continue reading →Harry Reid offers still more evidence…
…that he’s a lowlife bottom feeder. But of course, you already knew that. And Datechguy asks, “Can we stop calling the Washington Post a ‘newspaper’ now, and officially declare it a propaganda organ?” Answer: yes. Here’s some of what Reid … Continue reading →
Another reminder that certainty is an iffy proposition
Vincent Van Gogh on his relationship to posterity: As a painter, I will never amount to anything important. I am absolutely sure of it.
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