Tom Van Dyke’s recent post on how we’re not so good at math when it matters reminded...
Year: 2011
The war on drugs, I admit, is worrisome. The surveillance of American citizens without a warrant is...
From the same Reihan Salam post I quoted from in an earlier post: Recently, for example, I...
Mistermix asks: Both ED Kain and he-who-shall-not-be-named have endorsed Paul for President as a protest vote. Since I’m not a serious thinker,...
Though I’m somewhat more moved by the loss of Paula Hyman, an historian with a different, but...
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.” Although Ben Franklin...
So I’ve been working part-time in a restaurant since August. I started as a humble bus boy...
In Jason’s recent post on Waste and Abuse, Density Duck writes: Ask your husband to explain how SpaceX...
If you haven’t read Tod’s rumination on what Christopher Hitchens meant to him and how he will...
Today is the first day of Saturnalia. I nominate Jaybird to serve as our Lord of Misrule....
On Thursday we got our plywood, and yesterday we got our second delivery of dimensional lumber. That...
I thought I’d share with you my Christmas present to myself.
I am in the men’s room of a trendy bar in Belgrade Serbia. In my ear I...
Both Idaho senators voted against the NDAA. We could chalk it up to partisanship (“They’d totally have...
I see that Elias has jumped on the study making the rounds that the net worth of...
As everyone everywhere knows by now Christopher Hitchens passed away last night, finally succumbing to the oesophageal cancer...
By this point you’ve probably already heard the most popular, latest eye-catching bit of agitprop trivia on...
Joining what I hope will be a chorus of obituaries today: What’s important in life? Good Scotch,...
My goodness, the news on the radio this morning was grim. Everything was Newt Gingrich this, Jerry...
Christopher Hitchens died yesterday. Vanity Fair broke the news and any number of publications are running obituaries...
