My Problem with St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day is America’s favorite ethnic holiday. It is also the strangest. In a calendar crowded with Cinco de Mayo, Kwanzaa, and gay pride parades, St. Paddy’s is the one chance for the...
Daily Archive: March 16, 2010
The League of Ordinary Madness (II)
The League’s official NCAA tournament group is now up and running. Unfortunately, you have to register at ESPN to get in, but signing up makes you eligible for a generous prize package (to be...
The insignificance of the wunderkomputer
Much ado has been blogged about Emily Howell, the computer program that writes Bach chorales , Mozart sonatas, and other kinds of pieces in the style of various composers. You can listen to two...
There is No Plan B for Mideast Peace (and Why We Need One)
Stephen Walt thinks that the latest spat between Israel and the US is grounds for bringing back up a topic that very few want to discuss: what plans/solutions/options remain if (and when) the two...
Truth Without Falsification
One of the ways I differ from the typical gay-activist blogger (aside from being a shameless free-marketeer) is that I’m willing to give ex-gays at least some benefit of the doubt, in a few...
The League of Ordinary Madness
To compensate for all our highbrow talk of philosophy, the classics, French cinema, and Battlestar Galactica, I’m thinking of setting up a League NCAA tournament pool. Drop a comment if you’re filling out a...
