Dan Wetzel has an intriguing article this week on how we should pay the Little Leaguers who play in the Little League World Series (LLWS). The argument goes something like this:
1) Child actors who make millions for media conglomerates get paid for their work, even though almost any kid would be happy to be [...]

It’s past time for the Bush Administration to figure out a new way of doing business. Here’s their traditional MO:
1) Find (or Invent) a Problem: the death of Social Security, America’s failing schools, Saddam Hussein’s WMDs, etc.
2) Boldly propose a course of action related to the problem: privatize social security, No Child Left Behind, [...]

You probably haven’t heard about it (I saw it in the NY Times, but I’ve been having trouble finding other major news organizations who have picked up the story), but two US citizens are currently being kept in Pakistan, after the United States government has refused to take them off the “no-fly” list. Muhammad [...]

The president of Iran has challenged George Bush to a televised debate about international policy. This is a debate I would pay good money to see. Unfortunately, the U.S. and U.S. interests would undoubtedly come out worse for the wear - what with Bush’s bumbling incompetence at reasoned argument. Still, I might [...]

Take a look at President Bush’s polling (numbers are here, or check out this chart). If we ignore the little bumps (which are just as likely due to polling error as they are to any particular activity undertaken by the President, we notice that the President’s numbers have risen three times: when we were attacked [...]

Stephon Marbury is endorsing a $15 Basketball Shoe. Kudos to him. We’ve talked a lot about poverty on this site, and one thing that has always bugged me is when kids from families that struggle to pay utilities, wander around in $175 basketball shoes. It’s things like that which cause people not [...]

Correlation does not imply causality.
Fox News has been on a kick today about a Forbes Magazine editorial (actually, it is a point-counterpoint kind of thing), which cites a recent survey that purports to find that married career women are less happy than married women who work part-time or stay at home. Career women also [...]

Here’s something I don’t understand:
Religious conservatives in the United States are significantly less likely to believe that the globe is over-heating, or that (if it is) men have anything to do with it.
My problem is this: doesn’t the Bible tell us that we have stewardship over the earth? God said that he gave the [...]

Something everybody should know.

Every once in awhile, I write something that I know is going to get me in trouble before I even say it. Today is one of those days.
A Chicago ban on foie gras went into effect yesterday, the Chicago City Council deciding that the meat was always the result of animal cruelty. In [...]