In the comment thread of an earlier post I said this: One of the things that’s so...
Month: November 2011
Crying babies. The Economist weighs in, Megan McArdle responds via Twitter. Three things:
Manichean rhetoric is employed, nuance is jettisoned, and catchy sloganeering reigns supreme. To believers in the primacy...
Incentives are a funny thing; they’ll sneak up on you if you’re not careful. Back in the...
I expect that this is going to be a somewhat unpopular post, judging by the feedback I’ve...
A collapse of the Eurozone would be a disaster of 1929-like proportions. But what’s for us in...
(Part 1 can be read here.) In July of 2003 I went to Kenya on a commissioned promotional...
There is a semi-grand blogospheric pseudo–tradition called opposite day. On opposite day… atheists do their best to argue...
RTod’s post reminded me of this story. When I was in the second grade, there were three...
A project update, in no particular order: We formed a new company for the build: The Montauk...
I still think Romney’s going to win the nomination, but it’s going to be damn fun watching...
This weekend, we took our daughter to see The Muppets, her first time watching a movie in...
First of all, let me start off by saying: Merry Christmas! And a Happy New Year as...
I wanted to offer my condolences to James Joyner for the sudden loss of his wife, Kimberly....
“The Civil War had a profound impact on Holmes the professor and the jurist. His experience in...
Original poetry by Tod Kelly.
There is a superb scene in the third chapter of Alexander Pushkin’s novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin in which...
So I’ve been a PC gamer for a long time. I haven’t owned a console in years...
( 3 , 4 , 5 ) ( 5, 12, 13) ( 7, 24, 25) ( 8,...
A passing yet timely thought as we survey the Western world’s welfare state: What was thought to...
