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 December 3, 2008Opinion Today |
Abstract City: Christoph NiemannChristoph Niemann is an illustrator and author. He lives in Berlin.  I like coffee so much that I have tea for breakfast: The first cup of the day in particular is so good that I’m afraid I won’t be able to properly appreciate it when I am half-asleep. Therefore, I celebrate it two hours later when I am fully conscious. . . . Read full post » ADVERTISEMENT The Wild Side: Olivia JudsonJudson is an evolutionary biologist who lives in London.  President-elect Obama already has a long to-do list. But here’s another item for it: to restore science in government. The most notable characteristic of the Bush administration’s science policy has been the repeated distortion and suppression of scientific evidence in order to fit ideological preferences about how the world should be, rather than how it is. . . . Read full post » Reader Comment"The problem is not just the ideologically based Bush administration; the problem is endemic in the rest of society. Scientific data and conclusions are seen as matters of individual faith and choice, not observation and reason. . . ." - Posted by Thomas Hamilton, Dec. 3, 4:07 a.m. Read full comment » | The Opinionator: Tobin HarshawA guide to the wide world of newspaper, magazine and Web opinion. The scramble to settle the Al Franken-Norm Coleman Senate race gets weird as it goes down to the wire. Read full post » The BoardA blog by the editorial writers of The New York Times After more than 5 1/2 years of war in Iraq, this country is still giving far too little attention to the large number of men and women who are coming back from the battlefront with serious physical and mental injuries. . . . Read full post » Paul Krugman: The Conscience of a LiberalThe Op-Ed columnist's blog. A few more notes on the did-FDR- prolong-the- Depression front: 1. Gauti Eggertsson has an interesting paper arguing that NIRA policies, by reducing the expected rate of deflation, were actually expansionary. . . . Read full post » Authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner bring their blog to The Times. Read More » |
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Reader Comment
"I had an easier path to coffee addiction, my mother informed me, after years of coffee consumption, that she used to add a little hot coffee to warm the milk in my baby bottle. I thanked her for the favor. And for those who imagine too much coffee unhealthy, as if it would matter, at 60 years I have consumed enough coffee to float a battleship and no ill effects have yet to overtake me. . . ." - Posted by Ed Burke, Dec. 3, 7:41 a.m.
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