Oh joy! Oh rapture! Cookies do await.
I hardly can restrain enormous glee,
I count the seconds and anticipate,
The wondrous pastry that’s in store for me.
But what is this? My eyes must be deceived!
These cookies are corrupted with foul nuts!
Oh woe! Oh Anguish! I am much aggrieved!
As disappointed nausea fills my guts.
What heinous being would do this [...]

When it comes to raising babies, there are a few things worth noting:
1) Critical cognitive and social development happens at a young age, and babies that are neglected, mistreated, or otherwise are deprived of cognitive, emotional, or physical nourishment are at a serious disadvantage for the rest of their lives.
2) Babies don’t come with instruction [...]

As I’ve made clear before, I’m strongly against the death penalty for ethical, moral, and philosophical reasons. And so, when I say that I’m going to tell the story of a case that shines a light on some of the biggest problems of the death penalty as applied to our criminal justice system, you [...]

I just saw a report on one of the cable news stations about how crime rates are creeping up across the country–especially the domestic abuse, disorderly conduct, assault, vandalism, etc. that we would expect to see climb during times of economic turmoil. It’s a predictable phenomenon when unemployment is up, especially unemployment among part-time [...]

There is a bit of controversy on my campus right now about the role of a university in public discourse. I find the debate interesting, so I thought I’d share it with the leftfielders.
On one side are advocates of the notion that universities should play an active role in social policy and setting the [...]

Barack Obama’s old senate seat might not be filled for awhile. While technically Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was just arrested yesterday for trying to sell that seat, still has the power to fill it, just about anyone that he named would be immediately tainted with this whole scandal. While he could resign at [...]

On a day when I am overawed by the stupidity, brazenness, and greed of the Illinois Governor, I thought it might be fun to revisit some interesting tidbits about that long, glorious election we just had.

The lack of political acumen consistently demonstrated by the Big Three auto executives is mind-boggling. At its heart, politics is about salesmanship. The Big Three need to sell the bailout to Congress, and to do that they need to help Congress sell it to Americans–many of whom are facing their own economic troubles [...]

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but the this year’s college football turmoil has nothing to do with the BCS–and wouldn’t be solved by a playoff (and yes, I’m a big fan of a playoff; I knew that Obama fellow had a couple good ideas!)

There is a great op-ed in today’s New York Times. The gist of it is that there is the Minnesota Senate race is so extremely close–a couple hundred vote difference out of almost three million votes cast–that their is no humanly way possible of knowing who actually received the most votes. Any vote [...]