On Mike’s comment rescue of Zic’s great comment, commentor Bookdragon asks: As I’ve grown older and look...
Year: 2012
I suspect that this will have zero effect on the election, because I believe that the reason...
Andrew Sullivan has pulled out the Electoral College maps again to make a point about race, the...
I’ve been bugging commenter Zic to write a guest post and she gave us the next best...
Hank Shaw is a blogging friend of mine and he runs the popular site Hunter Angler Gardner...
Political ads are like soft drink ads. They don’t have anything to do with facts or the inherent...
I’ve been hearing nothing but bad stuff about Sandy all weekend. I’m hoping that this is another...
*Spoiler Alert: Do not read this post or the comment section if you have not seen the...
Hurricane Sandy is about to slam into the East Cost, potentially causing flooding and damage from the...
So the town of East Hampton has declared a state of emergency. School is cancelled tomorrow, emergency...
First of all, thanks to everyone who played the Challenge – either here in the threads or...
How about, “Where’s your photo ID?” An interesting play to secure the key “Seven-year-old with adult sense...
It all starts far, far from any stadium. There are no diamonds and no throngs of adoring...
Two news items from the world of digital commerce and culture catch my attention: 1) Facebook has...
The “joke” in the Dunham-for-Obama ad is the equivalence it posits between voting and sex. But a...
Looking at the polling data earlier this week, I noticed my longtime worst nightmare for the 2012...
I’m off to scout Hands Creek on Three Mile Harbor as a hurricane hole.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnw3wHMdJMU That is “Timebomb” by the Old 97’s, a fantastic song that has been included on several...
As promised here are two cases from Avlis of magic equipped societies. I will begin with a...
…or why Major League Baseball and its business model are vastly preferable to the NBA and NFL....