PPP polling has a grid up of the popularity of the public option in a few states. Results here: –Daniel Strauss

My boss this past summer Mike Tomasky has a fascinating post up based on an interview of Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia: On its site today the Wash Post has a video interview with Jimmy Wales, one of the co-founders of Wikipedia. He is asked by the Post’s interviewer: The people who started “Conservapedia” did [...]

Via the excellent Felix Salmon comes this window into Somalia: Piracy investor Sahra Ibrahim, a 22-year-old divorcee, was lined up with others waiting for her cut of a ransom pay-out after one of the gangs freed a Spanish tuna fishing vessel. “I am waiting for my share after I contributed a rocket-propelled grenade for the [...]

Chicago’s Onion A.V. Club has a list of train stops that should get the ax to help save the city some money. The list is, as far as I can tell, supposed to largely be entertainment with a smack of insight but it comes off as trying too hard. And below the failed humor is [...]

People say I’m crazy for worrying about global warming.  Well I stand corrected. Look at all this snow on campus right now. And it’s December! We’re just halfway through the winter season. Al Gore should stick to Man-Bear-Pig. It’s a more credible story. –Daniel Strauss

I am a golf nerd. I worked at a golf course throughout middle school and high school and played almost every day during most summers. I wake up early and watch the European tour, and stay up late to watch events in Asia. Golf has been a refuge from the idiocy of American culture. And [...]