Monthly Archive: February 2012

…so that makes it okay. Right? In January, prodded in part by outrage over a series of articles in the New York Review of Books, the Justice Department finally released an estimate of the...

Hey Gents! Not to toot our horn, but toot toot.  Check out #3 on this Zagat guide of “Awesome Food Getaways”.      

In Sam’s recent post on snobbery, one of the more interesting threads had to do with what I refer to as art relativism. For my purposes here, let us define art relativism as the...

Seeing as I disliked both teams in The Big Game equally, I was unusually interested in the halftime show this year. I am not a terribly big fan of Madonna’s, but I’ve always appreciated...

The U.S. Constitution is full of terms of art — short legal phrases with deep implications and even deeper historical roots. One such phrase is the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee that no one will be...

[This is cross-posted from Slow Tuesday Night, where the Cocktail of the Month is a regular feature, but I felt like this one is front page material. I’m sure you’ll let me know if...

We spend the last two days taking out all the screws and washers that held the plywood in place while the glue set, and then cleaning things up; filling the hundreds of little screw...

I’m going through my old blog commenting haunts and discovered Dr. Free-Ride has put out a call to help a group of high school science students fund their trip to CERN. The group is...

Earlier this week I met with a client who heads up a non-profit that serves a particular segment of the disenfranchised. She had concerns about some projects one of her organization’s divisions were starting,...

I don’t know why, but I’ve been rediscovering early Barenaked Ladies and early Pat Green the last week or two. I can’t say that I care much for what BNL have done since (and...

Since everyone in the League had the good sense to avoid this story all week, I thought I’d ruin our Friday.  (edited to add)  Well, not everybody.  (/edited) Today, the Komen Foundation retracted its...

As most here know, I am an avowed Basketball & NBA fan.  I’m an addict that refuses the 12 steps. And while we don’t usually do sports highlights here, I am going to do...

(Note: This week Rufus brought up the point that with so many posts these days it’s easy to miss stuff.  He suggested we begin doing a weekly review, similar to The Dish.  Great idea!...

Even people who have never read a page of Hobbes have probably seen the frontispiece of Leviathan. It’s a body, made up of bodies. (Yeah, there are other bits down below. We’ll talk about...

The glamour and excitement of boat-building. What I didn’t know is that our fearless leader Erik Kain had cited some research from Media Matters and the author of said research saw my (what I...

The FBI guidelines for spotting suspicious activity in an Internet Cafe: Are overly concerned about privacy, attempts to shield the screen from view of others Check! Always pay cash or use credit card(s) in...