Professor here. It’s a bizarre misapplication of peer review. Yes, if you have compelling new findings that contradict previous scholarship, you have to submit the data and your interpretation of it for peer review. This submission will probably be dense and likely only be understood by specialists, and that’s…

In my program, we were actively discouraged from writing in any way popular audiences could possibly construe as entertaining or interesting. It’s mind-boggling.

Contemporary sociologists trace the origin of the phrase “alternate facts” back to the 2015, the year that the Super Bowl champion Carolina Panthers became the first team in NFL history to go undefeated.

meanwhile, The History Channel is in the middle of a 4-hour block of American Pickers.

Stephen Colbert is part of the liberal media’s anti-bear fear campaign. How often does the media talk about the number of lives bears save every day? Never, because they don’t want you to know the truth.

The only way to stop a bad bear is with a good bear. Ban bear free zones!

Good game. Great ending.

That’s awesome.

alternate headline:

Nothing says hip hop dance off, like three white kids from Milwaukee.

The list of “Best Baby Races” is much more disturbing at Breitbart.

They practice at home.

I’m not sure how desperate I’d have to be to talk to a woman about the Browns.

The beverage giant this month began buying native advertising space with Ashton Kutcher’s A Plus digital news site — which espouses positive news — in hopes of making millennials learn to love its OJ. The site has 11.5 million unique monthly visitors, according to a September news release.

Counterpoint: 24K Magic is good.

And this time of year, there’s Great Lakes Christmas Ale!

You’ve hit on a personal grinding axe of mine. Geography snobbery is something that goes unquestioned in pursuit of punchlines, I’m ready for some pushback on that. I live in South Minneapolis and I get people who grew up in the burbs or outside of the metro and have never been outside of MN for any length of time…

I live in Pittsburgh and love it. I will gladly live in any of the major rust belt cities over those soulless godforsaken overgrown strip malls like Dallas and Phoenix.