How would you do on Texas’ eighth-grade science test?
Give it a shot.
I got 44 out of 50 correct. Post your score below.
Also, to my surprise, one of my friends, Krissi Trumeter, criticized my old college friend, Sofia Resnick’s, recent article in the Austin Chronicle. What’s surprising is that they don’t know one another. Austin is […]

I know at least some of my readers visit this blog because they’re interested in writing. Granted, the act of writing isn’t something I write about much here — if at all in recent years. Nonetheless, I wanted to point those who do read this blog for that purpose to a friend’s blog, Thirty One […]

Wake up, little blog.

this.

Enough said. Bye, bye, W. Thomas Smith, Jr.

So, W. Thomas Smith, Jr., who criticized me for a post I made earlier this year by declaring his holier-than-thou reporting and fact-checking methods, seems to have run into quite a bit of trouble himself over his “reporting” in the Middle East.
The story is all over the Web, but the Columbia Journalism Review blog has […]

Just received a lovely e-mail from the God’s own homosexual-filled Republican Party of Texas:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT: Hans Klingler at 512/477-9821
Democratic Senate Candidate Noriega Asks “Netroots” Donors to “Step Up” And They Don’t
Dismal Three Day Online Fundraising Effort Further Points to Anemic Start for
Liberal Senate Wannabee

Austin- Today the Republican Party of Texas questioned Democratic Senate wannabee […]

Let’s get something out of the way here first. I love The Tank. It’s right up there with OP-FOR and Danger Room to me. So I’m happy just to have been noticed and referred to by W. Thomas Smith Jr. — even if it is only to take me to task for this post.
I want […]

Excellent New Yorker journalist George Packer writes an insightful post about his visit to the new Creation Museum in Kentucky:
The simulation serves a primitive ideology known as “young-earth creationism,” which promote the idea that the earth is just over six thousand years old and that the fossil record appeared after the Flood, around 4300 B.C. […]

Okay, so here’s where my writing nerdiness comes out. (Even if you can’t tell from the quality of my writing on this blog.)
Off the Kuff has a post discussing his belief that “they” and “their” should be accepted as valid, gender-neutral forms of singular pronouns. In responding to grammarians’ dislike of such a proposal, Kuff […]