Strange moments in Nobel Prize history

Posted by | 4:47 AM
You may have heard of Richard Feynman, the physicist/prankster who played bongos, wrote a guide on how to pick up women, cracked the safe co...

White power on the march

Posted by | 8:47 AM
When I first heard that McCain's new campaign strategy was to "go negative," I said to myself: "OK, so McCain is going to...

I were stupid

Posted by | 3:16 PM
I've been going around saying that Obama needs Ohio, Virginia, or Florida, to win - that just getting Colorado would be enough. Turns ou...

The Bush Boom

Posted by | 11:50 AM
If eight years ago you had all your money in the Vanguard 500 Index Fund (the safest and lowest-cost mutual fund there is) on the day George...

John McCain IS 1980s action cinema

Posted by | 11:39 AM
Not only is John McCain's name just one consonant away from "John McClane" of the Die Hard movies, but now FP Passport brings...

Good writing outsourced

Posted by | 11:31 AM
I'm outsourcing all my opinions for the day to Francis Fukuyama, who has written an excellent summary of where we are as a nation . If y...

Obamaconomists

Posted by | 8:33 AM
At a convention this weekend, I remarked on how unusual it is these days to find a politically conservative economist ("Yeah," my ...

My ancestral religion...

Posted by | 7:56 PM
...has apparently become a cheap Wahhabism rip-off . Doh.

Mmm, crow

Posted by | 8:19 PM
OK, I was wrong. Completely utterly wrong. I said that Sarah Palin would blithely ignore the moderator's questions and hit all her talki...

Bush: worst president ever, but not 100% bad

Posted by | 7:45 AM
As we contemplate what a God-awful president John McCain would make (not to mention Sarah Palin), it's worth it to step back and realize...

Whose fault?

Posted by | 1:40 PM
I've probably done more railing against the Republicans in the last couple weeks than I have in the entire rest of the three years I...

Sarah Palin is going to win Thursday's debate

Posted by | 8:09 AM
Sarah Palin is going to win Thursday's debate. Expectations for her performance are rock-bottom after the disastrous Katie Couric interv...