When Hawks Cry

The great tidal wave of conservative backlash against health care reform? David Frum, former Bush speechwriter, ain’t buying it. He’s written quite a screed (called “Waterloo”) about the failure of conservatives, so provocative that it appears...

How can I roll when the wheels won't go?

Here’s the entire interview with Donald Simanek from this week’s Art in Paradise story about perpetual motion machines: 1) Is it safe to assume that nature will allow a machine that runs for an unusually long time without input of energy? Are the kinds of...

New numbers; Zweibel lives

Polls are merely inexact and momentary snapshots, of course, but this is certainly interesting: More Americans now favor than oppose the health care overhaul that President Obama signed into law Tuesday, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds — a notable turnaround from...

Giving Muppets a bad name

So that’s what Grover “I mean, [the estate tax on the wealthiest 2 percent] is the morality of the Holocaust” Norquist has been up to. Dude seems to get off on attempting to claim black is white. From a must-read at Think Progress: Net neutrality, a...