Damn Yankees will be performed on 3/18, 3/19, 3/20 and 3/21 at 7:00 pm, with a matinee on Saturday, 3/21 at 2:00. There have been a few misprints, this is the correct information. Please come and enjoy the show!!...

Living in India, and in the light of the recent attacks by the "moral police" in a city in Southern India, this has been a subject of much debate in my country lately. I thought it would be interesting to see what members of CoSForums have to say about it :) Just to set the ball rolling, h...

Yet again a cash now pusher has tried to factor a structured settlement annuity owned by the United States of America and someone has pissed on its leg. This time it's the United States District Court for the District of Kansas ordering summary judgment for the United States on March 10, 2009 in an ...

You know, our military rarely ever questions itself while it lines the pockets of defense contractors, but when it comes to what they deem as the ambiguous timing of a health issue of one of their own, they'll talk themselves all the way around the world to justify denying care. My, how a leukemia d...

A copy of Walter Kirn's Lost in the Meritocracy (a reiteration of the article with little to justify the extra 150 pages, as it turned out) came through my office yesterday, and I read it. Two things:1. David Samuels already wrote this book.2. I am sympathetic to skeptics of the academic meritocracy...

How did 5 alleged Al Qaeda members come together to form this statement, given that they are being held each in isolation at Gitmo? Are they allowed to meet and discuss various topics, including... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]...

Begging the increasingly salient question: devious realist payback or total fucking amateur hour? Officials in Jerusalem are quietly scratching their heads in wonderment as to why the White House did not release an official statement condemning yesterday's tractor terrorist rampage here, the third a...

Just as you believe that maybe, perhaps, the tide is turning and the government that is charged with the responsibility and care of those most in need — the severely mentally ill who are hospitalized — actually “gets” it, you read a story like this one. Raquel Padilla was dis...

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