Is Google making us stupid or smart?

Neither.

This explains everything.

"Why incompetent people are too incompetent to know they’re incompetent."

An impossible font

Frustro.

(via)

Bill Maher on our national love affair with fake outrage

"When did we get it in our heads that we have the right to never hear anything we don’t like?"

The greatest time-waster Wikipedia page ever?

"List of lists of lists."

Breaking news: When demand for a product goes up, the price of that product goes up too

And the seller apologizes for following the law of supply and demand.

Why Newt Gingrich can't win the nomination

And why the media doesn't want you to realize it.

Is grief a psychiatric disorder?

Maybe.

Why Gingrich's supposedly brilliant ideas wouldn't work

Ramesh Ponnuru explains.

Is Mitt Romney winning because he's the "whitest" candidate?

No.

Obama's focus on income inequality . . .

. . . looks like a good way to lose the election.

Carbon monoxide

It's good for you! (via)

Why are journalists wildly inconsistent in whether they're willing to report on sex/harassment scandals?

Mickey Kaus has a unifying theory: Journalists are moderately liberal patriots.

Do birds follow grammar rules?

Maybe.

Have educated women stopped getting married?

Nope.

"[T]o the extent that racial preference fans at Berkeley condemn opposition to their ideas as offensive — i.e. blasphemous — . . .

. . . and leave temperate-minded people afraid to speak their minds, they have become, themselves, The Power—a kind of power that good people are responsible for Speaking Truth To." — John McWhorter

America needs to have so much more shopping . . .

. . . that we're resorting to imported shoppers.

Supreme Court fans

In The Onion . . . and real life.

Guess who's against the "Buffett rule"

“It isn’t [my idea] to have the rich pay more taxes. It’s to have the ultra-rich pay more."

Who's winning the political center?

Republicans, argues William Galston — a worried Democrat.