Update: so the very first commentator revealed how much this was the product of a bad cold. Indeed, I've completely misnamed the post. It shouldn't be "standard stories" but "contextual assumptions." The most important rhetorical commonplace, in my experience, is...
Via Ari Kohen, a visualization of the nearest 100,000 stars in Sol's neighborhood. Sometimes blogs should just share cool stuff, no? Can't leave all that stuff to other social-media platforms.
The Canard "All the fake news that fit to print" --Washington A new report issued Tuesday by the American Political Science Association reveals that compared to their counterparts in American...
I'm home sick. With my daughter. Who is also sick. So this will be brief. Sean Kay makes the "case for Chuck Hagel" at the Huffington Post. Daniel Larison slams Jonah Goldberg and other "petty,...