Politics
Scrooge-like predictions for the New Year
Mostly dour predictions, offered with the hope that I end up being wrong.
Václav Havel's Funeral: Why Truth Needs Love
What the rest of us can learn from a one-of-a-kind sendoff
Who's More Anti-Science: Republicans or Democrats?
Comparing the applied ignorance of our two major political parties
L.A. Metro's Light Rail Arguments Off-Track
MTA blog explains (inadvertently) why Los Angeles has nation's worst travel time
The Five Worst Op-Eds of 2011
Thomas Friedman to Simon Winchester, the best worst hackery of 2011
Executive Kill Switch
Should the president have the power to kill anyone he considers an enemy?
Office Pool 2012
Predicting the GOP presidential ticket, the next deposed dictator, and the fate of the European Union
No, Lawrence, There Is No Stimulus
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell gets a lump of coal for fibbing about government job creation.
Arresting Judges: It Just Makes Sense
Newt Gingrich hits a double with jailed-justice proposal