Slate: I used to think that nothing rivaled the misinformation spewed by climate change skeptics and spinmeisters. Then I started paying attention to how anti-GMO campaigners have distorted the science on genetically modified foods. You might be surprised at how successful they’ve been and who has helped them pull it off. I’ve found that fears […]

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Foreign Policy on how the UN saved Somali piracy: In a classic no-win situation, the Puntland government found itself being encouraged to fight piracy by the United Nations at the same time those very actions were being considered by another wing of the U.N. to be contributing to security destabilization. Puntland invited high-profile media and […]

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Say what now? [Ghulam Ahmad] Bilour[, Pakistani Railway Minister,] on Saturday put up a bounty of USD 100,000 for killing the maker of the film ‘Innocence of Muslims’ and went to the extent of inviting Taliban and al-Qaeda to take part in what he called “noble deed”. And yet some still want so badly for […]

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Somebody has a mancrush . . .

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Fiscapocalypse: Now that Chicago’s children have returned to not learning in school, we can all move on to the next crisis in Illinois public finance: unfunded public pensions. Readers who live in the other 49 states will be pleased to learn that Governor Pat Quinn’s 2012 budget proposal already floated the idea of a federal […]

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When you invoke Oliver Wendell Holmes and his “fire in a theater” argument for suppressing free speech, that what you’re really saying has no meaning except “I support the government suppression of any speech I don’t like.” Popehat: Holmes’ famous quote is the go-to argument by appeal to authority for anyone who wants to suggest […]

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Ugh.1 Sometimes determining the outcome of an election is just the media’s civic duty. Where is barfman when you need him? _______________ 1. I’d like to think that Miller is writing in the vein of Swift, but with Miller being absolutely in the bag for Obama it’s highly unlikely.

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Wow. In 2005, an epidemiologist, Katherine Flegal, analyzed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and found that the biggest risks of death were associated with being at either end of the spectrum — underweight or severely obese. The lowest mortality risks were among those in the overweight category (B.M.I.s of 25 to […]

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And the truth to boot: Though some members of the Jewish, Christian, Hindu, and Buddhist faiths were reportedly offended by the image, sources confirmed that upon seeing it, they simply shook their heads, rolled their eyes, and continued on with their day. It wouldn’t be so awesome if it didn’t demonstrate the utter barbarity of […]

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Tablet Magazine: I do not begrudge Farah Stockman or anyone else their grief at losing a friend and fellow citizen. But when she writes that “one great downside of the First Amendment is that the inner thoughts of our stupidest citizens are put on display for the whole world to see,” I say she has […]

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