Eating the Rich: By the Numbers
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.” Although Ben Franklin didn’t actually say that [it dates back only to the 1990s], it’s already a familiar American truism....
Daily Archive: December 17, 2011
A Cosmic Question for Saturday Evening: why is the elderly gentleman at table 57’s coffee not hot enough?
So I’ve been working part-time in a restaurant since August. I started as a humble bus boy and have since worked my way up to waiting tables and performing several other miscellaneous functions as...
Costs on the Books
In Jason’s recent post on Waste and Abuse, Density Duck writes: Ask your husband to explain how SpaceX can build a rocket for half as much as NASA. Then get back to me on how...
The Ambiguous Legacy of Christopher Hitchens
If you haven’t read Tod’s rumination on what Christopher Hitchens meant to him and how he will be remembered, I recommend you do so now. As is always the case with Tod’s front-page work,...
The Best Of Days
Today is the first day of Saturnalia. I nominate Jaybird to serve as our Lord of Misrule. Eat, drink, and be merry, fellow Ordinaries! Gamble in public, sing naked, and clap your hands in...
The unbearable weightiness of becoming.
On Thursday we got our plywood, and yesterday we got our second delivery of dimensional lumber. That means the boat is in the barn — plywood, epoxy, lumber, glass — now it’s simply a...
