American Sandwich Project: French Dips, Drips, and Glops
French Dips, like most things that claim to be French, aren’t French at all. And like most things that claim to be sandwiches, their origin story is shrouded
Monthly Archive: December 2019
Saturday Spins: Dire Straits
I don’t think I have ever encountered a person that does not like Dire Straits, and Mark Knopfler and Co. pretty much saved rock n roll during the 80s from glam, hair bands, and synthy pop music.
Weekend Plans Post: The Last Potentially Normal Weekend
If you’re hoping to do nothing, this is probably the last weekend for a while where that’s an option
UK Elections: The Limits of Comparisons
Slow your roll on drawing sweeping parallels between UK elections and in-progress 2020 elections in America. Things that are different are not the same.
Boris Johnson set to win a clear majority in U.K. election, exit poll suggests
Boris Johnson set to win a clear majority in U.K. election
Star Wars Episode VII: The Saga Awakens
This is the eighth in a series of reviews I am writing for each of the live-action theatrical Star Wars films. I’ll be reviewing the films in release order in order to give the...
Thursday Throughput: I Just Didn’t Want It To Be True Edition
I was peripherally involved in this research, which detected some of the highest energy photons every seen from a gamma-ray burst.
Wednesday Writs: Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
Suspected enemy combatants at Gitmo were not permitted rights afforded to US citizens. But with Hamdi, the government ran into a wrinkle: He was, in fact, a US citizen.
The Dark Road of Censorship
The only answer — not just to the porn but to all of it — is “No”. No to every last stinking piece of it. No to porn bans. No to FOSTA. No to control of Facebook. No to censorship of Twitter. No to government crackdowns on “fake news”. No to laws on social media “addiction”. No no no no no.
Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned on Sesame Street
As a child of the 60’s I was part of the very first generation to grow up watching Sesame Street. You see, back in the old days when I was a kid and Snuffleupagi...
