Humorous take on America’s wars.

GE made $14.2 billion in profits last year but paid zero corporate taxes to the United States Government. Legally.

Natural disasters in Japan have lessened the supply of pigments necessary to make black paint.

They say anyone can grow up to be president. Michele Bachmann is apparently taking them at their word.

Matthew Doig of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune posted a want ad for an investigative reporter and it’s gone viral.

Newt Gingrich on Libya: “This is as badly executed, I think, as any policy we’ve seen since WWII, and it will become a case study for how not to engage in this type of activity.”

The Supreme Court will decide whether states may jail parents who fail to make child support payments without providing them an attorney.

Infographic on How to Have a Rational Discussion.

Radley Balko and his blogs are moving to Huffington Post.

Nuclear power remains far safer than coal. The awful events in Fukushima must not spook governments outlawing atomic energy.

Jorge Benitez has written a useful Libya Primer: Who is In Charge of Allied Forces? The short answer: No one.

The last chapter of nonfiction books is almost always lousy. Here’s why.

Is Libya a war? Hell yes, Libya is a war.

The uneasy coalition that coalesced around action in Libya will be strained by decisions to come.

There are many opportunities to go to war. Here’s a guide for choosing between them.

This letter from legendary music journalist Lester Bangs is making the rounds

Experts say the phone call is a relic of the past.

It looks like things are underway in Libya, with French President Nicholas Sarkozy confirming that French jets are already in the air above Libya.

What are the limits of Resolution 1973? Are there any?

Lawyers in US court case spent ten pages of transcript arguing what a photocopier is. “Do you have machines where I can put in a paper document, push a button or two, and out will come copies of that paper document, also on paper?”

Shailagh Murray becomes the latest reporter to join the Obama White House.

Warren Christopher, Bill Clinton’s first Secretary of State, has died at 85.

Earth’s moon will seem bigger Saturday night than it has since 1993. It’ll still be the same size as usual, however.

Apparently, being named after the sitting president wasn’t enough to keep Ashbury Park, New Jersey’s Barack H. Obama Elementary School open.

Simplest possible NCAA Tournament bracket

Did President Obama pull off a diplomatic masterstroke? Or is he muddling through?

America is about to enter a third war in the Muslim world with no clear idea of the end game.

Ru Paul for President 2012 bumper sticker

While complaints that there’s too much information for intellectuals to sort through, much less read, are constant, they’re not new. Harvard historian Ann Blair argues in her new book Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age that this stress goes back at least to Seneca’s time.

They’re letting anyone into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame these days.

There’s still time for Sarah Palin to burnish her political reputation. But she probably won’t.

New York Times journalists Anthony Shadid, Stephen Farrell, Tyler Hicks, and Lynsey Addario have not been heard from in more than 24 hours.

Alain Juppé’s concession that “the moment has passed” for NATO to successfully intervene in Libya is correct.

Players from the Los Angeles Clippers chipped in to pay for the surgery of assistant coach Kim Hughes back in 2004. It’s been a secret until now.

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried is the latest idiot celebrity to damage their career on Twitter.

Add this to the list of things for parents to worry about: Car safety seats for children over 65 pounds are not adequately tested.

President Obama is once again catching flak for his leisure activities.

Automated programs are getting very good at poker and are winning large sums on online gambling sites.

Archaeologists may have found the lost city of Atlantis. And, no, not the one in the Bahamas.

Philippa Thomas has a fascinating take on how she broke the news of (now former) State Department P.J. Crowley’s condemnation of the Obama administration’s treatment of Bradley Manning.

If the Republicans need their own Bill Clinton, how about Mark Sanford?

Can the massive destruction caused by the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdowns stimulate the economy?

This video “Teachers Unions Explained” isn’t particularly fair but it’s nonetheless amusing.

79% do not think Ivy League students make better workers. 18% are undecided.

A new biography of Adolf Hitler analyzes new documents about his World War I service and “concludes that he was not the hero he was later made out to be and that his radicalization shouldn’t necessarily be attributed to his wartime experiences.”

Overnight, we celebrate the biannual ritual of resetting all our clocks so as to save daylight. Oddly, the amount of daylight continues to heed its own rhythms.

A March 12 explosion at the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Japan, appears to have caused a reactor meltdown.