The Harvard historian and scholar will ruin your day with this interview he did with the Vancouver Sun. Excerpts: Q What are your thoughts on the U.K. economic situation as it relates to the election? A The situation of the United Kingdom in fiscal terms is in fact worse than the situation of Greece. That…

I passed a British Petroleum gas station today, for the first time since the Gulf oil spill. I took special notice of the sunny, green and green-friendly logo on the big plastic sign out front, and thought once again about how the companies expensively-purchased environmentally friendly image is shot all to hell. I also thought…

I’m having a tough time trying to figure out what I think of Nicholas Kristof’s column today. In it, he’s trying to defend the Catholic Church as a liberal writing to a liberal readership. Here’s the tack he takes: Yet the church leaders are right about one thing: there is often a liberal and secular…

Once again, the German taxpayer is to be greatly pitied for having to bail out Greece, which deserves to be taken the the woodshed. Check out this NYT story: ATHENS — In the wealthy, northern suburbs of this city, where summer temperatures often hit the high 90s, just 324 residents checked the box on their…

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