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"People Are Like Wine"

by Patrick Appel

Dan Ariely pinpoints the problem with online dating:

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How The Week Beat Newsweek

by David Frum

Andrew Ferguson explains:

[I:]t is now an article of faith in the magazine business that readers don't want this at all. Immersed as they are in round-the-clock cable TV and websites, they don't need a rehash of events a week old. I'm a fuddy-duddy, world class, but I'm not so sure. It's true that most journalists have fixed themselves to the info-teat of their iPhones' Twitter feeds. A rather smaller percentage of normal people live this way, and the presumption that the desires...

The Ghosts Of Failed Candidates Past

by Patrick Appel

Larison compares Palin's 2012 run to Giuliani's doomed 2008 campaign:

You will immediately object that Giuliani and Palin are completelydifferent, and in most respects that's true. Regardless, in one of themost important respects they are very much alike: pundits andjournalists took Giuliani seriously as a candidate for the Republicannomination when there was absolutely no reason to do so, and now morethan a few of them are doing the same thing with Palin. If...

Sanity On Social Security? Ctd

by Chris Bodenner

Susan Gardner insists that supporters of raising the retirement age are focused on the wrong statistics:

The fact is, men are living less than three years longer,women about five. Yes, there are more people living longerbecause they didn't die at age 3 of whooping cough or polio, but thelife expectancy for an individual has not been extended very much atall once age 65 is reached. Disturbingly, pushing the retirement ageout five years as is currently proposed actually means...

How To Pwn A Heckler

by Chris Bodenner

In three words:

(Hat tip: TDW)

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Because My Name Is Hussein?

by David Frum

Barry Rubin debunks the President's insulting explanation of Israeli mistrust of him. 

Israelis, after all, have dealt with two famous Husseins: King Hussein of Jordan and Saddam Hussein of Iraq. The former was a good friend, the most popular Arab leader in Israeli history. (Note 1)

So one can be a good Hussein or a bad Hussein. Of course the issue with this third Hussein is his policies. And that's why I find his saying this thing far more upsetting.

I'd respect Obama more, and...

The System Is Sick

by Patrick Appel

Conor Friedersdorf calls this article by Mariah Blake on the medical industry "the most important story of the year." It's about Thomas Shaw, a man who invented a syringe that dramatically cuts down on infections. The devices only cost a few pennies more to make but it hasn't been adopted. The story is about how laws governing Group Purchasing Organizations are disrupting the implementation of innovations such as Shaw's:

For Shaw this unsolvable riddle has become a kind of...

Michael Mukasey's secret plot to aid the New Black Panthers

by Dave Weigel

Well, no, that headline is a joke. Adam Serwer, who's worked like the devil to debunk theories about why the Department of Justice isn't gunning for the New Black Panther Party,
Conservative activist and former Voting Section...

Friends of Zion

by David Frum

Today, July 12, is not only Orange Day, but also the birthday of my paternal grandfather Saul Frum. Born in the Czarist empire in 1904, he migrated to Canada with his wife, my grandmother, in 1930. My father was born the next year. That lucky bit of timing is the reason I am typing at this computer today: Those in his family who remained behind in Europe were all murdered, with only one survivor. 

I think of my grandfather often, more and more as I near the age when I knew him...

Creepy Ad Watch

by Chris Bodenner

It's really not fair to other advertisers to have Japan compete in this category:

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