Obamacare: The Dadwagon Endorsement

Dr. Scott Atlas is not a happy man these days. He is not just the head of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center, he was also Rudy Giuliani’s health care adviser during the former New York mayor’s abortive (oops, touchy word!) 2008 presidential run. So when I heard him speak a few weeks ago at …

Autism Causes Divorce! (No, It Doesn’t!)

Why is it that crazy conservative publications are so much more fun to read than crazy liberal ones? Give me the hardcore nuttiness of The New Criterion or Commentary (general, but Jewish; that’s comedy gold) over the absolutely politically correct yapping at The Nation and Mother Jones; and yes, before anyone says it, I work …

But Will He Plot His Escape Via Airplane?

In a charming essay here,  a Londoner named Sathnam Sanghera cops to being a 33-year-old man whose biological clock is ticking. A Bridget Jones with testosterone, a Charlotte York before her Harry comes into the picture. It’s a nice personal essay, if a little too long, and Sanghera zeroes in on the thing that’s most …

Yo, Money, It’s Gotta Be the…Onesie?

Well, yes, a bit of time was spent this past weekend (and last week at work) watching some basketball. And yes, as someone involved with the Harper’s Index, I’ve expended a good deal of energy trying to determine what impact the Tournament has on the nation’s economic picture (have yet to find a reliable study; …