Bosons and Bankers: What’s Up, God?

July 5th, 2012

By Bob Gaydos
Scientists may have discovered the “God particle.” That may explain how we got here. It doesn’t explain why we need bankers.

How the GOP Weathered the Fourth

July 5th, 2012

By Emily Theroux
A Wall Street Journal op-ed blasted Mitt Romney for “slowly squandering an historic opportunity” to win the presidency, which the writer fears the Republican candidate may lose to perpetual vacillation. Flip-Flopper-in-Chief, anyone?

Gigli’s Photo of the Week

July 4th, 2012

By Rich Gigli
JULY IV, MDCCLXXVI – The day the United States adopted the Declaration of Independence.

On the Declaration

July 3rd, 2012

By Jeffrey Page
Some people with steely nerve reduced the King to a pronoun.

Summer Driving

July 2nd, 2012

By Shawn Dell Joyce
Simply cleaning your car’s exterior will reduce drag and thus improve fuel efficiency.

Carrie’s Painting of the Week

July 1st, 2012

By Carrie Jacobson
Another step on the road to faith.

John Roberts, Unlikely Hero of the Left

June 28th, 2012

By Bob Gaydos
“You can be deeply conservative and believe the affordable care act is completely consistent with the United States Constitution.” — Chief Justice John Roberts’ Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe, two days before the Supreme Court upheld Obamacare. Tribe taught Obama, too. Good job, Larry.

Gigli’s Photo of the Week

June 27th, 2012

The water of the mountain brook flows gently through the forest to fulfill it’s destination.

Mitt’s ‘Circus’ Sends in the Clowns

June 26th, 2012

By Emily Theroux
In the Romney campaign’s traveling circus, the main attraction is Mitt’s dodgy high-wire act along Arizona’s rhetorical border fence.

Finally, a Poll That Is Useful

June 25th, 2012

By Michael Kaufman
We don’t need polls that can’t possibly tell us anything about the outcome of an election held five months from now. Too many things can and will happen between now and then to influence the results. But that doesn’t mean we don’t need any polls