Its editors promised readers a "clear, critical, realistic, and rational" look at a business world in which "new industries rise like rockets, and old ones grow tired and die".
"But what it would do is place enormous pressure on Congress to take a rational look at the nation's drug laws.
Providing a bit more rational look at the issues confronting the sports, Tom Verducci gives his take on SI.com and, veering back into nuttiness, Joe Posnanski offers the possibility that the Nationals will make the World Series.
The Westminster Academy, set alongside London's elevated A40(M) Westway, by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has something of the same cool, rational look about it; again, it would be just as happy in a Scandinavian city as it is in London.
Conflating facts of technology's rapid progress with a Hollywood understanding of intelligent machines is provocative (honestly, it's a favorite in my most-loved science fiction books and movies), but this technology doesn't live in a Hollywood movie, it isn't HAL or Skynet, and it deserves a grounded, rational look.
But let's take a more rational look at what New York is proposing.
"There's a lot of yelling and screaming about how bad things are going to be, but we should be taking a calm, rational look.
Barack Obama was a political sensation and a rational look at demographic shifts in America suggested a huge swing towards typically Democratic constituencies.
I am not suggesting that the media not report the news but would love to see it balanced with a rational look at what would happen to each of us if the pundit's screaming predictions become reality.
But in any rational look at the spectrum of American political views, it is hard to imagine attaching the words "moderate" or "moderate conservative" to Ryan on any issue except perhaps his clothing preferences and his haircut.
The stories in this book are clearly told, with warmth and a quick wit, and together form a wonderfully lucid and rational look at 20th century Arab American life.
