(Previously, Parts 1, 2, 3 , 4, 5, and 6) My younger daughter asked for a guitar for Christmas, so we put it...
Month: January 2012
Surge was a citrus-flavored soda pop launched in the US by the Coca Cola Company in 1996...
Well, it is the NYT, so I can’t vouch for it: But G.D.P. per capita (an insufficient...
I live in Singapore and all citizens are required to have an Identity Card. (IC) The IC...
I once received an invitation to a social event that concluded with the line “RSVP, please, by...
(This will take more than a paragraph.) Ron Graff was noticeably shorter than me, which puts him...
Before I was an art major, I was a music major, and before I was a music...
Not long ago, David Cameron delivered a speech extolling the continuing cultural relevance of the King James...
A pretty good piece in the New York Times today about social mobility in America or, more...
In his 1877 preface to, and defence of, his novel L’Assommoir, Émile Zola writes: “I wanted to depict...
My sincere apologies to everyone who was, er, participating in this bookclub. With recent job changes and...
The Islands of the Blessed are sort of like Hawaii, but more. And a whole lot less...
Hosni Mubarak faces death by hanging. Though today’s newspapers are full of breathless reporting via al-Ahram, the...
Jakadrian Turner was 14 years old in November of 2010 when, despondent over her parents’ divorce and...
I had previously described building this boat as having two distinct steps; the second being the assembly...
There are two legal/constitutional objections: First, that the president can’t make a recess appointment for a post...
The third and fourth sections of Hobbes’ Leviathan treat religion at length, but religion is hardly absent...
Law.com reports (registration required, but it’s free). FTA: In Citizens United, the Court ruled that the First...
I chose to remain silent during the recent round of Ron Paul posts. It wasn’t because I...
