Wow, the results in Iran's election were just about the worst to be imagined. A narrow win for Ahmadinejad - or even a mere tie in the first round and narrow victory in the subsequent runoff - would have been better. In those circumstances, it might have been thought that he'd been legitimately re-elected ( Read more... )

When you go to vote today, consider this. In 2004, we Americans had an opportunity to correct our earlier mistake. Please learn from our failure to learn from our failure.

When was the last time you clicked the little spell-check box on your word processor? (Or selected 'check spelling and grammar' from the Tools menu? Or whatever you weird Mac people do, assuming you're not too cool for spelling ( Read more... )

President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court will accomplish at least one thing: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will no longer feel quite so lonely.

Obama would clearly have been in some trouble had he not nominated a woman for the seat. Here's my question: will there be repercussions if he picks a man for the next vacancy? ( ( Read more... )

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NYT: Kept from a Dying Partner's Bedside

When a loved one is in the hospital, you naturally want to be at the bedside. But what if the staff won’t allow it ( Read more... )

Amid final paper grading, my procrastination-seeky mind alighted upon two useful ruminations, both nominally relevant to the task at hand. Hence, two separate dilemmas of pedagogical ethics follow ( Read more... )

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