Balancing Frogs

I have a bad habit: my attention wanders when I'm reading. It's especially a problem if I'm reading off a computer screen, and ...

So what actually happened in those Taiwan municipal elections? BEFORE THE ELECTION, I believed Su Tseng-chang had a real shot of knocking of...

I have Taiwan Election 2010 Pictures! Also see Jenna's election coverage here . Elections are Saturday, November 27 for the mayorships o...

From the Washington Post : Commuter describes harrowing climb on Metro escalator , as he found himself climbing up a stopped escalator as th...

WASHINGTON - Democrats expressed joy and relief this morning as they emerged from their bunkers in the nation's capital to realize that ...

So I’m at a loss about what we’re supposed to do in the world according to Jon Stewart. Hey, all you people working for gay and lesbian equa...

I never got an absentee ballot this year; I take full responsibility for that. I'm kind of peeved at myself. I haven't missed an e...

James Fallows is peeved , and rightly so. He had a post up about how 15 past winners of the Nobel Peace Prize had protested the continuing ...

Two bits of opinionizing on American politics in the year 2010: 1. The Tea Party. A couple of years down the road, we're going to look b...

It's a shame I haven't updated this thingy in months and months. I have no excuse. It's not like I went and got married or an...

From the AP: Cloak of invisibility takes a step forward . Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology report they were ab...

FiveThirtyEight.com's Tom Schaller has posted an interview with Annabel Park of the Coffee Party Movement. I’d like to start by asking ...