Keep your powder dry, because Jeff needs to pay off his credit cards. But if you’ve got the scratch, here’s Ace’s situation: I’m leaving Boston because as may guessed, in my none too subtle apartment bleg, I’ve broken up with my gf here, and as she was pretty much the only person I knew here (apart from Boston Irish, but he’s hard to get a hold of), I’m pretty much

me: “Loved you in Cujo. Pintauro: “Pardon me?” me: “I say, I loved you in Cujo. Fine bit of acting, especially for a six-year-old.” Pintauro: “I’m sorry, but I think you have me confused with –” me: “Not a big fan of ‘Who’s the Boss,’ though. Between you and me, Judith Light creeps me out. I think it’s the hair. And Tony Danza? Well, let’s just say he peaked during

The first Oslo is where Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts on the issue of global warming.  What does global warming theory have to do with peace?  Funny you should ask: The Norwegian Nobel Committee said global warming “may induce large-scale migration and lead to greater competition for the Earth’s resources. Such changes will place particularly heavy burdens

As usual, Krugman comes in later and dumber than anyone else chiming in on the Frostfuffle, an economist who doesn’t see how subsidizing improvidence creates a disincentive toward planning, and shows as much curiosity toward the actual facts of the case (Eg., why didn’t auto insurance cover them?  If they’re already covered by SCHIP, then why the need for expansion?  Why is this program aimed at children covering so many adults?)

History is being made at Harvard as the Ivy League university officially installs its first female president.  Drew Gilpin Faust has actually been on the job for several months after being elected earlier this year by the Harvard Corporation, the school’s governing body.Faust is a historian who previously served as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She succeeds Lawrence Summers, who was pressured out after five contentious years