Last week the dunces driving America’s automobile industry down the washboard road to oblivion, left their corporate jets in Motown and drove hybrid cars to Washington, DC to once again plead their case for a bailout. Having seriously misjudged the symbolic (and, therefore, political) importance of modes of transportation, these transportation moguls were, for [...]

History is made! For the first time since 1961, small children will live at the White House. Amy Carter and Chelsea Clinton lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but neither was really a child anymore, and neither was (at the time, at least), particularly photogenic. Some social scientist somewhere should examine why three [...]