Wesleyan University-- notable for its beautiful campus, inspiring teaching staff, and carefully-cultivated crop of the generation's next leaders-- is about to be known mainly for having a sexy sex magazine filled with nude students and tips on buying condoms, among other "controversies.&quo...

While I don’t have any particular plan to take a break, it seem clear that blogging is on some sort of hiatus for me. I’ve been very busy and, when I have free time, am choosing to do other things. Beyond that, I’ve also realized that I’m not sure what I want to have as the p...

  Katie Rees, Miss Nevada USA 2007, who was stripped of her crown following this and other "scandalous photos" Let me tell you something about Hartford, Connecticut, the city, I, Scanner Brian was born in. Actually, better yet, let's not tell you anything about Hartford, Connectic...

Before I start this post, let me say congrats O man for getting your stimulus package passed in the house today. I know the rethugs are fit to be tied, but fuck em, they don't have a party anymore; they are totally irrelevant. Okay now that I got that off my chest I want to talk about Judge Curtissa...

In 1999 The Hartford produced some point of sales pieces for appointed structured settlement annuity brokers to use to compete with alternatives to structured annuities such as bank trusts, CDs, variable annuities and US Treasuries.  The passage of time has rendered some of the key points of these...

…or “Odds and Endsâ€� for $300, Alex. As we’ve talked about before, contributing to a blog is not always easy. But one of the very cool things about this place we call Brains on Fire is that when someone finds something that might make a great blog post, they share it. Here is a collection...

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Connecticut’s Pilot Program For Autistic Adults which “adults of normal intelligence with diagnoses on what is called the autism spectrum” is in danger due to budget cuts. Today’s New Haven Register reports that Governor M. Jodi Rell has ordered all state government agencies ...

CATHY LYNN GROSSMAN September 27, 2008 After decades of soaring growth, the phenomenon of Protestant megachurches — behemoths of belief where 2,000 to 20,000 or more people attend weekend worship — may be stalled. And Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill., the granddaddy of "se...

This edition of the Education for the Aughts Podcast addresses three topics: A look at patriotic curricula in public schools - what we had and where we’re not; Grade inflation in Hillsborough County, Florida; Lack of accountability in New Hartford, NY and a financial boondoggle in Utica, NY. Y...