Vanity Fair a long story online about the meltdown of Iceland’s economy. It’s a facinating piece about how a famously reticent, frugal people managed to create a financial bubble that is certain to go down in the history books alongside the Holland’s tulip craze. Although the autho...

There were three computation errors in Christopher Hayes’s March 2 “Cut the Military Budget.� The Pentagon budget request represents a 13 (not 12) percent increase over last year’s budget. The reported Obama Defense Department appropriation would represent a 2.2 percent increase over last ye...

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This cartoon image provided by the New York Post appeared in the Post's Page Six Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009. The cartoon, which refers to Travis the chimp, who was shot to death by police in Stamford, Conn. on Monday after it mauled a friend of its owner, drew criticism Wednesday on media Web sites an...

Our quote of the week, courtesy of one Mr. Amir Hoveyda, head of Boston College’s chemistry department: I can hardly imagine a more effective way to denigrate the faculty of an educational institution … The insult is particularly scathing, since such symbols were installed without discus...

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Meet Dexter Yarborough, a retired Chicago police officer who kept it real in a recent talk with some students at Colorado State University. Probably a little too real for his own good: Yarbrough allegedly told students that paying informants with drugs was acceptable, as long as the informants never...

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The Village Voice has fired jazz critic/civil liberties columnist/atheist anti-abortion activist Nat Hentoff. Hentoff appropriately has the last word: With all due immodesty, I think it doesn’t help to lose me because people have told me they read The Voice not only for me, but certainly for me....

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