I’ve been the teaching assistant for an undergraduate class called Prisons two years in a row. In sections, our discussions invariably turn to what prisoners “deserve” and, predictably, many students make zero-sum arguments about limited resources and the mere idea of prisoners receiving more translates…
Join me for a moment in imagining the day and age when an extremely tall, striking female who once played basketball for her college team, and made her living by parading her femininity on the national stage, pledged to do whatever she could to serve…
Things have been a bit crazy around here, so here’s a little something to keep your gastropolitical tastebuds active, courtesy of a friend of mine, courtesy of seriouseats: Palin Syrah’s sales drop after Sarah Palin is chosen as Republican VP “‘It was our best selling…
I apologize for not keeping my promise of posting recipes every Monday and Wednesday, especially because a lot of you have told me that you not only enjoyed the goat curry recipe, but some of you actually tried it–kudos! In addition to my apologies, I…
These little Palin tidbits are like vials of crack and the media’s our pusher. Are we, as a nation, so completely and hopelessly struck with ADD that our news networks don’t think we can sit through more than 10 minutes of questions with such a…
