43% believe a group of people randomly selected from the phone book would do a better job than the current Congress. Thirty-eight percent (38%) disagree with that assessment, while another 19% are not sure.
I’d side with the 19% here, but acknowledge that this would be one heck of an experiment. Someone should make “Shadow Phonebook Congress” a reality show. [
Rasmussen Reports™]
At one point Mikovits […] was hiding out on a boat to avoid being served with papers from the Whittemore Peterson Institute.
Yet another high profile retraction from
Science [
#] complete with crazy upon crazy details that leave me longing for a
Law & Order to rip this thing from the headlines. “Fallout From Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Retraction Is Far and Wide”[
NYTimes]
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No doubt there are worse things than being young and male and unable to throw anything accurately under any circumstances, but it did not always feel that way at the time.
Stephen Squibb, ”Late Patriot Football” [
n 1]. Loving all of the post-Super Bowl deepthinkpieces. See also, an hour of Tom Brady having a sad that features a sprinting hug from Gisele Bundchen followed by a grief-induced Katy Perry neg [
yahoo!]; Sascha Frere-Jones defending M.I.A.’s finger while disapproving of her apology [
newyorker]; and Wesley Morris decoding Madonna’s halftime show [
grantland].
I have been in meetings where people look down and notice my socks, and there is this universal sign, almost like a gang sign, where they nod and pull up their pant leg a little to show off their socks
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They couldn’t even compete in the same Miss Universe pageant (a Trump franchise about as far removed from the Romney comfort zone as small talk or dancing).
Ana Marie Cox dissects the Trump endorsement. [
guardian]
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