8th graders who took the New York state standardized English exam this week were faced with a couple questions that were, um, interesting... (npr.org)
submitted 1 month ago by CowboyDan to politics
Journalist and public-policy grad student looking for a room in Manhattan or BK June 1(ish) through August 31(ish). My mom thinks I'm cool. (self.NYCapartments)
submitted 1 month ago by CowboyDan to NYCapartments
Looking for an apartment on a journalist's budget... (self.NYCapartments)
How our deep-seated need to see the world as fair can help explain the Trayvon Martin case (thedailybeast.com)
submitted 1 month ago by CowboyDan to science
If Mitt Romney and the Tea Party have a dysfunctional relationship, it's not Romney's fault -- it's the fault of the TP's fundamental incoherence (thedailybeast.com)
submitted 2 months ago by CowboyDan to politics
Yet another study shows that simply giving long-term heroin addicts their fixes in controlled clinical setting can greatly mitigate the damage they do to society. Too bad the US is decades behind the rest of the world when it comes to drug policy (thedailybeast.com)
Some on the right want to "reform" welfare by setting up massive state-level drug-testing bureaucracies that would cost more than they would save. Now that's small-government conservatism! (washingtonmonthly.com)
Patriots fans of reddit: Please help me watch the Super Bowl! Looking for a Pats-friendly bar deep in enemy territory. (self.BostonSports)
submitted 4 months ago by CowboyDan to BostonSports
Patriots fans of reddit: Please help me watch the Super Bowl! Looking for a Pats-friendly bar deep in enemy territory. (self.Patriots)
submitted 4 months ago by CowboyDan to Patriots
/r/phoenix -- I have a day or two or three in Phoenix and like nature-y things. What do I need to do? (self.phoenix)
submitted 5 months ago by CowboyDan to phoenix
Anyone else surprised there isn't yet a way to do power hours via Spotify playlists? Seems like something the average Reddit coder could throw together in about 20 minutes... (self.Music)
submitted 5 months ago by CowboyDan to Music
Three hundred years and there's really no reason to think it couldn't spend the next millennium lodged into that hillside. (theshorteststoriesofall.blogspot.com)
submitted 6 months ago by CowboyDan to scifi
"Because even after the Ambien’s brunt hits I’ll have some mind left for you." (theshorteststoriesofall.blogspot.com)
submitted 6 months ago by CowboyDan to writers
"The shortest stories of all" - all of three posts but might be worth a look. (theshorteststoriesofall.blogspot.com)
submitted 6 months ago by CowboyDan to books
Sorry, don't think I'll be able to make it this year (i.imgur.com)
submitted 8 months ago by CowboyDan to funny
Anyone know of a good guide for finding decent-quality NFL streams online for those of us who simply don't have the money to drop on Sunday Ticket? (For the record, NFL, I would gladly pay $10 per game to watch my team, but you don't give me that option.) (self.nfl)
submitted 8 months ago by CowboyDan to nfl
Question about Spotify for iPad and offline songs (self.spotify)
submitted 9 months ago by CowboyDan to spotify
Obama's decision to focus on the deficit rather than unemployment won't just screw over millions of Americans -- it's also really, really bad politics (boston.com)
submitted 10 months ago by CowboyDan to politics
Looking for a copy of the textbook "Mathematics for Economists." Anyone in the area have one, by any chance? (self.boston)
submitted 10 months ago by CowboyDan to boston
Legitimate currency or not, people seem to already be using bitcoins to buy drugs online... (wired.com)
submitted 11 months ago by CowboyDan to technology
Reddit, my mom is thinking of getting my very tech-averse dad an iPad for Father's Day. Have you found that bad-with-tech parents adapt quickly to iPads, or is this idea doomed from the start? (self.AskReddit)
submitted 11 months ago by CowboyDan to AskReddit
YAY BOOK SWAP: My [any one or more of the tons of random books I have amassed through my job] for your "Alone Together" by Sherry Turkle (self.boston)
submitted 11 months ago by CowboyDan to boston
"Three advocacy groups have started a letter-writing campaign asking Scholastic Inc. to stop distributing the fourth-grade curriculum materials that the American Coal Foundation paid the company to develop." That's classy, coal. (nytimes.com)
submitted 1 year ago by CowboyDan to politics
TIL that Donald trump spent $85,000 buying full-page newspaper ads advocating the execution of 14-year-old black kids who turned out to be innocent of the (non-murder) charges they were brought up on (tnr.com)
A useful illustration of why you get incredibly wrong emails from your conservative relatives (tnr.com)
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