We’re quickly running out of summer, so I want to share one of my favorite drinks of...
Year: 2011
My co-blogger Will Truman has authored a really interesting piece on the United States Post Office. I commend...
Up at Forbes, I have a piece this morning about the intersection of science and religion that...
By way of Erik, I came to read Michael Lofgren’s well-written but ultimately unconvincing piece about the...
Here are a couple of interesting (and troubling) posts about what aging boomers are up to. First,...
I read Michael Lofgren’s excellent piece on the many failings of the Republican Party over the long...
Andrew Sullivan makes his return to the blogosphere with a Where Are We Now-styled post, the majority...
This is a ‘promoted comment‘ from the post “Climate Change is Real and it’s Heating Up‘. It...
“Neither Governor Perry nor the bulk of Texas’ citizens may be interested in climate change, but climate...
Last week’s “OC Watchdog” piece by Teri Sforza in the OC Register pokes the Prop 13 bear,...
Rachel Cook is a friend of mine from college who let me interview her about her upcoming...
I’m going to have more to say about this, but for now anyone who has read the...
It’s worth reading Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery’s article at Mother Jones on the ‘great speed-up’. The looming possibility of a double-dip recession notwithstanding, the...
The California Assembly, faced with such difficult tasks as prison overcrowding, the second-highest unemployment rate in the...
Regarding the hubbub about George Lucas adding a “KAAAHN!”-like “Nooo!” in Return of the Jedi, I have...
Here’s a question I was asked at a dinner party recently that made me wonder how people...
Aloha, everybody! After two weeks away basking in the tropical sun a couple of islands away from...
I figured the readership might enjoy a sampling of Japanese music in the spirit of Rufus’s enlightening...
Tom Van Dyke will be blogging with Tim Kowal at League sub-blog Notes from Babel. Please welcome...
“American works of art belong to the American public; they are part of our cultural history. People...