…so that makes it okay. Right? In January, prodded in part by outrage over a series of...
Month: February 2012
I’m so tired of buzz-phrases repeated endlessly on cable news so that people who are angry and...
A new study by David S. Law and Mila Versteeg concludes that the world’s democracies are no...
Hey Gents! Not to toot our horn, but toot toot. Check out #3 on this Zagat guide...
In Sam’s recent post on snobbery, one of the more interesting threads had to do with what...
Seeing as I disliked both teams in The Big Game equally, I was unusually interested in the...
The U.S. Constitution is full of terms of art — short legal phrases with deep implications and...
Thanks and regards to those who asked. For the past few weeks I’ve touring hospitals in Philadelphia,...
[This is cross-posted from Slow Tuesday Night, where the Cocktail of the Month is a regular feature,...
We spend the last two days taking out all the screws and washers that held the plywood...
I’m going through my old blog commenting haunts and discovered Dr. Free-Ride has put out a call...
Earlier this week I met with a client who heads up a non-profit that serves a particular...
I don’t know why, but I’ve been rediscovering early Barenaked Ladies and early Pat Green the last...
Since everyone in the League had the good sense to avoid this story all week, I thought...
As most here know, I am an avowed Basketball & NBA fan. I’m an addict that refuses...
(Note: This week Rufus brought up the point that with so many posts these days it’s easy...
Even people who have never read a page of Hobbes have probably seen the frontispiece of Leviathan....
The glamour and excitement of boat-building. What I didn’t know is that our fearless leader Erik Kain...
The FBI guidelines for spotting suspicious activity in an Internet Cafe: Are overly concerned about privacy, attempts...
Hannah Dreier reports in the Contra Costa Times: Without a new kidney, Jesus Navarro will die. The...