Supreme Court Rules Fifth Amendment Has to Actually Be Invoked
reason.com 9 hours ago
Better brush up on those constitutional protections if you want to use them
I Know What You Think of Me
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com 15 June
Hearing other people’s uncensored opinions of you is an unpleasant reminder that you’re just another person in the world.
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Schooling Ourselves in an Unequal America
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com 17 June
To regain our lead in educational achievement, we’ll have to work from the bottom up.
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Laughing at beauty queens | Against the New Taboo | Big Think
bigthink.com 8 hours ago
Consider this individual: She has appeared on ABC’s “What Would you Do?” and is the ambassador for “Healing Hands for Haiti,” which aims to bring rehabilitation medicine to the country...
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The Faulty Logic of the 'Math Wars'
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com 17 June
The “reform” strategy for teaching math that has taken American schools by storm lacks a claim to the progressive values that are its chief selling point.
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Majority of Americans Think a Bear Could Beat a Shark in a Fight
nymag.com 8 hours ago
Whoa, you sure, America?
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Writing Fiction and Nonfiction
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com 5 hours ago
Whatever genre I’m currently committed to becomes my favorite.
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Moving On: Part Two
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com 5 hours ago
Advice on facing the future from readers to the author, who still doesn’t sound too sanguine about it all.
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NSA Leaker Edward Snowden: "The U.S. Government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing...
reason.com 14 hours ago
NSA leaker Edward Snowden is participating in a live chat with The Guardian right now. So far he hasn't revealed anything on the same order of magnitude
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Edward Snowden’s Dad Wouldn’t Really Mind It If His Son Went to Prison Forever
nymag.com 8 hours ago
Interesting.
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Edward Snowden Is Not Petting a Phoenix in a Chinese Palace, and Other Revelations From His Online...
nymag.com 13 hours ago
He says he's not a spy.
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Obama’s Speech in Belfast…
sluggerotoole.com 21 hours ago
Obama's just arriving at the Waterfront Hall... I'll try and note the main highlights of the speech here (when he gets to the podium).....
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Why Women Should Be Able to Buy Birth Control Without Seeing a Doctor
reason.com 18 hours ago
There is no obvious explanation why something used safely over half a century by hundreds of millions of women should remain so restricted.
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Early Retirement: A Bad Idea Back Again | Disruptive Demographics | Big Think
bigthink.com 4 hours ago
Youth unemployment has reached crisis levels in several European countries: 39% in Italy, 55% in Spain, and 60% in Greece...
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Past NSA Whistleblowers Praise Snowden, Say They Tried and Failed With the Legal Route
reason.com 13 hours ago
Yesterday, the New Yorker's Jeffery Toobin took to the air to wag his jaw, repeating what he and others snoopy-state apologists have already said in print:
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Citizens and the State: The Problem Is Bigger Than You Think
reason.com 13 hours ago
The NSA scandal is the tip of the iceberg.
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G8 Youth Summit looks beyond Trade, Tax and Transparency to focus on Equality, Poverty, Health and...
sluggerotoole.com 16 June
Around a hundred 16-25 year olds from across Ireland converged on the G8 summit site a month early to put together a shared communiqué that expressed the top four issues they want the G8 leaders to...
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"Father of Video Games" Nolan Bushnell on Learning through Gaming
reason.com 13 hours ago
"People who play video games have much better computational skills, much better logic skills, much better search and cognitive skills than kids who don't,"
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Putin Took My Super Bowl Ring, Patriots Owner Says
reason.com 10 hours ago
Wasn't a gift as he previously characterized the 2005 incident
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A Timeline to Immortality, or Neo-Humanity | Think Tank | Big Think
bigthink.com 14 hours ago
If the Russian multimillionaire Dmitry Itskov has his way, we will be able to trade our bodies in forholograms and have computerized brains in 32 short years.
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Annual Grudge Match 2013 » Bock The Robber
bocktherobber.com 17 hours ago
You might remember my exposé of Mister Big, last year after I probed the murky underworld of Limerick inter-pub football. Here it is...
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Siobhán O Brien Album Launch » Bock The Robber
bocktherobber.com 17 June
Please resubscribe on Bock The Robber subscription page to get the latest news! Bock, says Siobhán, will you come down to Dolans and do a video of the album launch? What? No point asking me...
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Siobhán O Brien Album Launch » Bock The Robber
bocktherobber.com 15 June
Bock, says Siobhán, will you come down to Dolans and do a video of the album launch? What? No point asking me. What the fuck would I know about videos? Ah go on. You will. But it’s not what I do...
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“Adding more weapons to this volatile situation could destabilise the entire region…”
sluggerotoole.com 15 June
The Northern Ireland First and deputy First Ministers were in a sunny Downing St garden yesterday, welcoming that suspect package, and extolling the virtues of demonstrating "peacefully, positively,...
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What binds Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy? Love, actually
irishtimes.com 15 June
They are a controversial love match, but good old-fashioned amour is what binds Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy
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Why Rand Paul Distrusts Democracy
nymag.com 9 hours ago
If you're looking for a candidate who's not that wild about democracy, finally there's a major party candidate for you.
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No, I Didn't Criticize Sesame Street For Having a Muppet Whose Dad Is in Prison
reason.com 9 hours ago
Earlier this month the makers of Sesame Street released an educational kit for children who have a parent (or parents) behind bars. I wrote about the
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Analyst Says Rebel Group Fighting Assad is Best Equipped Al Qaeda Affiliate in the World
reason.com 11 hours ago
According to a private sector analyst informal assessments conducted by intelligence agencies from the U.S. and the Middle East the jihadist group Jabhat
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Million-Anecdote Baby
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com 15 June
If Obamacare works, the game will be over for those doomsayers who oppose the most significant change in American life in a generation’s time.
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