Over at Mindless Diversions, we’re thinking about getting together, virtually, and playing some games. If this is...
Month: April 2013
Atlantic Premiers are all riled up about changes to Employment Insurance, again. Seasonal, resource-based jobs cannot survive without EI...
Asking questions is dangerous business. I have friends and acquaintances who, after completing an inquisition into their...
There I was, enjoying some left-over pasta and a diet Canadian Dry on my lunch break. “Time...
(updated) Comments on this entry are now closed (/updated) A tale of the modern development quandary: “What...
It’s amazing how dreams can make you re-feel emotions that have long-since passed. I had one of...
Ken White at Popehat exposes the biggest conspiracy of all in the Tsarnaev case. Maybe I was...
From today’s Boston Herald (via memeorandum): The Tsarnaev family, including the suspected terrorists and their parents, benefited from...
A few hours ago, the entire world of sports journalism came to a momentary stop as the...
NBA center Jason Collins has become the first major American male team athlete to come out as...
I don’t mean to turn this blog into Shit My Krugman Says, but this, on the underlying...
When I learned it, I thought the motion for this month’s Intelligence Squared U.S. debate – “The...
So making the rounds on Facebook right now is this video:
by Mad Rocket Scientist During the last weekend in March, I was able to once again participate...
(Our kickoff post is here, and our discussion posts are here, here, and here.) Last week, we...
A recent petition to stop using the terms “illegals” and “illegal immigrants” generated the following response from...
So Paul Krugman got a little pink in his latest column: The austerity agenda looks a lot like...
George “No-Show” Jones, the Cadillac of country music, stopped loving her today. He was 81. Tonight I’m...
I would hope not to court much controversy by saying that all of us should live in...
