Just Checking In

As our regular readers have by now probably noticed, we’ve been out of the loop for a couple of weeks now. Running a news organization like OMT requires considerable resources on our part, and we feel that every once in a while it’s important for us to step back, shut up, and see what [...]

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And We’re Not the Only Ones Who Think So

Yesterday, we weighed in on President Obama’s winning of the Nobel Peace Prize (see previous post) and the automatic, knee-jerk, negative, America-hating reaction to if from the “disloyal opposition”. In the process, we said some nasty things about Republicans, as is our wont, none of which it would even occur to us to apologize [...]

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The Audacity of Norway

Here at OMT, we’re just tickled plum to death that President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Price. And yes, maybe, just maybe you could argue that he hasn’t accomplished much in the way of explicitly deserving it, and that he’s in the middle of prosecuting two wars, one of which he’s clearly winding [...]

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Hey, We’re as Smart as L.A.

The Daily Beast, Tina Brown’s preening, self-important, but slightly less-irritating answer to the web’s political über-tabloid, The Huffington Post, has published a list of “America’s Smartest Cities“, which we realize is not unlike Popular Mechanics publishing a list of America’s top fashion designers, but nevertheless, there it is.
Assigning an “IQ” to each metro area, based [...]

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Who Am Us?

The big news last week, at least for those of us who can manage to pull ourselves up out of the festering cesspool of American politics, was the release of 17 years of research into the discovery of a set of 4.4 million year old fossil bones of an early human ancestor, dubbed Ardipithecus ramidus. [...]

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