(A staple in my house since my single years, a puttanesca is a cheap, low-class pasta dish...
Month: March 2012
Erik will be happy: Canada is getting rid of the penny. A loonie for your thoughts?
Presuming that Mitt is indeedy the nominee, which seems to be locked in at this point… …...
The CDC yesterday released a study showing that autism rates have spiked. 1 in 88 kids are...
Adrienne Rich has passed away.  Encountering Adrienne Rich’s poems was a revelation.  Here was a feminist of...
Ed Kilgore, playing one my least favorite versions of What If since “Vice President Palin” was a...
… and I’ll bet your doctor doesn’t, either. Okay, that’s is a bit of an overstatement. I...
This is not my usual beat, but hey, no one seemed to bring this up so…. Jenna...
This is mostly a “clearing the deck” post. I realized earlier today that I have not...
It’s not quite Friday night, but Earl Scruggs, one of this country’s musical greats, deserves it.
The older I get the more I love the suburbs, or in our case the exurbs. I...
My friend Timothy Sandefur just happens to be one of the country’s leading libertarian public-interest attorneys. He’s...
Here’s a question for the group: Have you ever stood strongly for something – almost militantly so...
87%. Via Reason Hit & Run blog:
Contrary to what I imagine every non-wingnut first thought upon reading it, this piece was not actually written by...
My deposition ended in just enough time for me to catch an earlier flight back home than...
Since my last we completed the topside planking on both hulls. Â It makes for a very...
After listening to the audio, my sense is that there are only two likely rulings —
According to Wikipedia (to which I had to turn to figure out when we were), Mad Men...
Rojas spots a fun little contradiction: *If you believe that Barack Obama has spent the last decade...