Katie Roiphe puts Maureen Dowd…um, in her place. In fact, Dowd’s most compelling example of this rarefied, lonely demographic of woman too successful for love is herself. As Dowd would have it, men simply find her intelligence, her status, her wit too daunting. (A friend called her up to complain that her Pulitzer Prize would… Continue reading

So, the Boston Red Sox bid adieu to Theo Epstein, courtesy of the town’s worst hack: As another man once said, “all this negativity that’s in this town sucks.” As any Boston sports fan knows, Shaughnessy’s column was just the latest in an interminable string of ad hominem attacks, veiled and unveiled. He did it… Continue reading

The Discovery Institute. Not just dishonest. Turns out…they’re spineless, too: Now that a fifth expert has backed out of the Dover district’s court battle, a rift is widening between defense attorneys and the primary pro-intelligent-design organization in the country.

The Wisdom of Mother Basil: Mother Basil would not have liked the intelligent design people. She would have felt that they bring religion into disrepute. What kind of religion is it that wants to enter the science class? Good for Mother Basil.

How about a little something to cheer you up as you get off the subway today? As for the small size of the weapons and the notion that they can be detonated by one person, those claims also been authoritatively dismissed. The only U.S. government official to publicly admit seeing a suitcase-sized nuclear device is… Continue reading