The dogs have been stalking Boaty the Escape Dog. Now Boaty has one more thing in common with Sarah Palin besides the pointless annoying yapping

Quick. Name something lamer than bragging that you almost got a hand job at  computer camp last summer. Okay. Try this.

I’m going to apologize (and you’re going to tell me that I don’t need to) but I haven’t been pulling my weight around here lately because I’m swamped at work and I have a lot going on outside of work so, to be honest, this is about all I have time for lately so let’s [...]

Jeffrey Goldberg reports from Jerusalem that everyone has a sad: There’s real pain in Israel today, pain at the humiliation of the flotilla raid, pain on behalf of the injured soldiers, and pain that the geniuses who run this country could not figure out a way to out-smart a bunch of Turkish Islamists and their [...]

Social anthropologist and inexplicably still-employed opinion Ewok Richard Cohen wants you to know that crime rates are  going down at the same time that we are all becoming poor so, ergo, poverty does not cause crime. This is a good news, bad news column. The good news is that crime is again down across the [...]