Plasma Pool

Poor Bill Buckley

Kevin Hilke — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:09:31 +0000

Ezra Klein looks at just how insanely stupid (”The Soviet Union [reformed healthcare], and we know how that worked out”! etc.) what passes for intellectual seriousness on the right is today.

Give the Press Handjobs

Kevin Hilke — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:00:41 +0000

David Gregory, host of Meet the Press, is more a warmup comedian for pandering partisan blather than any sort of intellectual referee. E.J. Dionne tries to keep his head from exploding.

The Power of the Sun Is 0.3 Hellawatts

Kevin Hilke — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:55:05 +0000

The Sacramento Bee reports on Austin Sendek, a UC Davis physics student who has started a petition to establish “hella” as a scientific prefix.

Talking Punts

Kevin Hilke — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:44:44 +0000

Sarah Palin, pandering in Calgary, argues against herself: “My first five years of life we spent in Skagway, Alaska, right there by Whitehorse [Yukon Territory, Canada]. Believe it or not—this was in the ‘60s—we used to hustle on over the border for health care that we would receive in Whitehorse.” Stephen Harper should appoint her to their Senate!

Gay Tories’ Fancy

Kevin Hilke — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:37:09 +0000

Christopher Hitchens will soon reveal that he slept with two men in college who would later work for Margaret Thatcher.