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Initial results from Washington's online high schools, at first glance, seem disappointing : According to a state report released last m...

Baseball websites are bursting at the seams with statistics of every stripe. (Yes, I went there--twice.) And now, remarkably, you can find...

More fun in the field of evolutionary robotics: In one experimental condition, the arena contained only large tokens, and the only way for ...

Regarding the sanctions resolution , reader Kevin sends along a link to an older CATO institute backgrounder on economic sanctions, which ...

What turns a climatologist into an activist? Here's where the story takes a turn you don't expect from one of America's most s...

But if I were, I would totally be addicted to Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Intense gameplay, ridiculously rendered landscapes, a likable pro...

Today's Olympian lauds outside-the-box thinking by Washington legislators. Two bills that receive a tentative "meh:" adding ...

Debaters, you know the drill: in the van, exhausted, driving back to your school parking lot in the waning hours of the evening, your team c...

The Washington state legislature convened again today, facing a $2.6 billion shortfall that brought the entire usual cast of characters to t...

Regarding the economic sanctions resolution , I'm amazed by how many Affirmatives cite the definition of economic sanctions without cons...

"Teacher" isn't in the top 50 , but "Parole Officer" is. "Teacher" sits at 116, sandwiched between "...

A little over a year ago, I blogged about an LD topic that led to quite interesting debates: whether felons should have the right to vote. ...

I took a brief break from blogging about LD, and during my downtime, questions about the economic sanctions resolution have piled up. I...

Regarding the 2010 Jan/Feb resolution , the U.S.'s potential response to the ongoing crisis in Iran is a perfect contemporary example of...

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Or don't.

[An annual tradition. Installments from 2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2007 , and 2008 also available.] Top Ten Exclamations That Need to be Adopted ...

While the state dithers on raising revenue--taxes, they call them--local governments haven't had time, or money, to burn. Consider the ...

As the decade closes, blog-neighbor TRP hangs up his spurs . At least we'll always have the archive.

Sometime in 2009, Skynet became self-aware. Realizing that humans were the greatest threat to its existence, it started testing ways to surr...

It's been pretty quiet around here. What's transpired since the last time I blogged? 1. The wife and I attended a Hannukah party an...