Ordinarily, the Week on the Wagon comes with some sort of inane, barely rational statement of purpose, like where are our balls, or how many z’s are there in papparazzi (I still don’t know). But I’ve decided to skip that this week and cut straight to the question that’s on the hearts and minds of …
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You know, I try to be entertaining when I write these posts, and then my morning paper comes along and, in its deadpan way, is funnier than I could ever be. From a Times story about a sex-ed class that provoked protests: As a result, some of Ms. Kramer’s 30 students went home with neatly …
One of the least enjoyable things about living in these surreal times has to be the contradictions. On the one hand, everywhere I turn I see exemplars of the newest paradigm—the Free. What isn’t given away these days? Half the world’s best, worst, and pornographic ideas are shared gratis on the Internet, 24 hours a …
If you haven’t heard about this yet today, you certainly are about to. On Tuesday night, Rand Paul, son of the Texas libertarian congressman (and presidential also-ran) Ron Paul, won the Republican primary in Kentucky’s Senate race. And on Wednesday night, he went on The Rachel Maddow Show and more or less called for the …
