Hot Air has a lengthy montage of Jesus in grilled cheese sandwiches, sidewalks, rocks, ice cream, dirty laundry, Cheetos and more. Perhaps the reason why people see Jesus in all these wacky places is they’re desperately looking for Him and aren’t seeing him in us. When the so-called pros...

The army of anti-worker corporate groups hiring armies of lobbyists and pouring $200 million into defeating the Employee Free Choice Act have devoted most of their time and money to hammering home a single talking point: The bill will eliminate the sacrosanct "secret ballot" now enjoyed by workers d...

Harry writes about an article by Mary Ann Mason in the Chronicle. Our study of faculty members at the University of California revealed that mothers, on average, worked 95 hours a week, with 43 percent of those hours devoted to child care and housework and the rest to professional activities. Father...

WebWorkerDaily » Archive Try BackTweets for Better Twitter Link Search « Last week, Darrell Etherington wrote about how hard it is to measure the value of Twitter. One way to measure the impact that you’re having on the Twitter-sphere would be to see how many people link to your service, product...

Is that how you spell hookie?   Anyway...I am being bad and skipping class tonight. I NEVER miss class. I think in my entire career as a graduate student I have missed two classes total...including tonight.   I just don't feel like it. I didn't do my homework, my leg is killing m...

It was a hard-fought battle, but we can finally reveal the results of our online search to find Britain's top dog. And the winner is ... Tosca, the most heroic dog! In pictures: The six shortlisted dogs Ladies, gentlemen, canine friends, we have a winner. After we posted our Grufts shortlist of six ...

The weather here on Sunday was so beautiful - it was a great day to go and hang outside and that is exactly what Nicholas and I did.  I had some cleaning to do around the house, but I put it off to go outside and enjoy the beautiful weather that we were having. We ran around the yard, kicked t...

(This blog post will probably be interesting to the handful of political scientists who read this blog. Everybody else be patient. I feel a rant coming on.) Both Duck of Minerva and the Monkey Cage have discussed the move by Western Lutheran College to dissolve their political science department. In...

Growing up, Steve and I ate dinner very differently. His folks would tuck into their meals silently. The food would all be on the table with place mats, and they would all hunch over their plates and just eat. In my house, my mom would be moving back and forth between the table at the stove putting ...

Conserving energy is one of those things that you may want to do, but you've never gotten around to it, and you're not exactly sure how to start -- because, well, thinking about stuff is hard. The SmartSwitch prototype -- designed by Peter Russo and Brendan Wypich at Stanford University -- works on ...