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  • Thankful for the Flying Nuns

    Thankful for the Flying Nuns0

    My father-in-law recently told a story from one of his frequent work trips. He was in an airport, waiting as we all do, to be processed through the TSA’s security regime. The uniqueness of his wait in line comes from the company he happened upon: a group of nuns. It’s a rather different experience to

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  • Thank you, PolitiFact!

    Thank you, PolitiFact!0

    • August 19, 2015

    If you’re familiar with the federal government’s budgeting process and you follow social media, your head has probably exploded at least a dozen times when you see misleading information circulated as truth. Of course, countering it every time is exhausting. Who wants to take the time to go dig up the budget, make the images,

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  • Thank you for your Messy House

    Thank you for your Messy House0

    I recently visited a friend’s house with five children.  As I arrived for a morning coffee she was frantically vacuuming.  She had left for the school drop off in a rush, and clothes were still strewn through the hallways and toothbrushes and toothpaste smeared the bathroom (pretty much what my house looks like too before

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  • Thank God Trump Isn’t a Foreign Policy Expert

    Thank God Trump Isn’t a Foreign Policy Expert0

    Over the last century, the world has witnessed the slow but steady depoliticization of America and Western Europe in favor of the rule of the apolitical “expert.” The great challenge of our era is to foster the return of actual political life between the people and their elected officials. President Trump’s summit with Kim Jong-un

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  • Textbook Exec: “I Hate Kids”… Common Core “All About the Money”

    Textbook Exec: “I Hate Kids”… Common Core “All About the Money”0

    Apparently, the man behind the ACORN sting videos is now set on taking down a new foe: the Common Core Standards. Today, O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released a video showing conversations with Dianne Barrow, an accounts manager for textbook publishing company Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt. Here it is:     Significant quotes from the video include the following:

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  • Texas Students Strap on Dildos to Protest Guns

    Texas Students Strap on Dildos to Protest Guns0

    On Wednesday afternoon at the University of Texas at Austin, several students engaged in an act of protest. They strapped on dildos. The phallus-inspired action was in reaction to Texas’ new campus-carry law, which allows people with licenses to carry concealed handguns on all of state’s public university campuses. At the same time, as the

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