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John Nichols sees fit to mention the seething resentment still felt in San Francisco over Ronald Reagan’s failure to act against the AIDS crisis.
Unfortunately, his post includes this turn of phrase:
In a city that, perhaps more than any other, felt the devastating impact of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, there is still a [...]

Dan Balz of the Washington Post compares the two Republicans, George the Younger and Ronald Reagan.
His lede goes (emphasis mine):
The parallels are obvious for all to see: two conservative presidents who made tax cuts at home and muscular confrontation abroad the centerpieces of their administrations, westerners who sought to restrain the federal government but [...]

Chris Mooney gives a succinct and accurate characterization of the crowd protesting outside the BIO 2004 conference on biotechnology.
He writes:
The activists hate GM foods, which they incorrectly characterize as dangerous to human health. It’s a protest based on fiction and tinged with irresponsible Luddism.
I’ve never understood the anti-globalist activist’s response to bioengineering. Monsanto and the [...]

The title above drew my interest to this article written by a more than slightly obsessed Harry Potter fan.
I got tired of waiting for the fifth book to come out, so I decided to write my own. Last year, when I was 13, I wrote my own 826-page version of “Harry Potter and the [...]

Writing in Slate, Bryan Curtis comments all over the comedic void cloaking Dave Letterman.
What hope is there for black comedy on TV when the dark prince is peddling glee?
If FOX ever decided to start making sense they would put Conan or Jon Stewart up against Leno/Letterman. Either host would be a bigger draw than whatever [...]

The all knowing, sort-of-seeing Score-o-matic has all the info on last weekend’s UPA College National Championship.
UC Berkeley UGMO ultimate (the good guys) was felled 7-15 by Colorado Mamabird (the bad guys). I would like to say UGMO put up the good fight, and that I contributed to the effort, but I cannot. We stunk [...]