Sorry, Tea Leaf Readers
A potentially mighty case dies not with a shout, but with a one-sentence memorandum, full of legal formality, signifying nothing.
Author: Burt Likko
A Brilliant Deconstructive Comparison Again Proves That Which No Longer Needs Proving
A fine critical analysis of this week’s demonstration that the best show on television has eroded into a pale, unfunny, and indeed macabre shadow of itself.
To No One’s Surprise
A squib of a post about this morning’s Supreme Court decision in McCutcheon v. FEC. Very brief: aggregate campaign donation limits unconstitutional.
Monday Trivia, No. 156 [Michael Cain wins!]
Fifty U.S. cities. Presented in several unmarked brackets. I think this week’s puzzle is pretty easy, personally, but I rather like it notwithstanding.
Because You Haven’t Thought About Wu-Tang Clan In A While
The weirdest marketing plan for music maybe ever. For starters, they’re only going to print one copy of their new CD.
Monday Trivia, No. 155 [Michael Cain wins!]
Be the first to guess why some, but not all, of the states (and Puerto Rico) are listed in this order!
Linky Friday No. 61
It’s Linky Friday and now you have a way to malinger productivity while reading random links embedded in wry comments that are only funny after you read the articles!
Ingredients Triumph
A lean, inexpensive cut of beef: a London broil. A simple rub: truffled salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, ground savory, and garlic. Sous vide at 124 F for ten hours. Char with torch or...
Preach It, Brother Nate!
Statistics wizard Nate Silver talks about the re-launch of FiveThirtyEight on ESPN, political punditry, and burritos.
Andrew Napolitano and the Pollardism of Slave Condemnation
Could Abraham Lincoln really have sidestepped the entire American Civil War by using the government’s power of property condemnation to buy all of the slaves in the South and then free them?
SIHTAF: The Video Game Addiction Lawsuit
SIHTAF means “S[omething] I’ll Have To Apologize For,” as in readily-mockable conduct by a brother or sister member of the bar. Today, I contemplate my cocktail-party response to some guy suing video game publishers because his adult son has become a Playstation waste-oid.
Linky Friday #57
Burt Likko fills in for Will Truman for this week’s aggregation of dozens of links to themed web randomness!
Poor Partners
In classical art, you almost never see Athena and Aphrodite depicted together. There’s a reason for that, and it’s not the same reason you never see Clark Kent and Superman in the same room.
The Lost Art Of Grammar
A headline writer for the E! website demonstrates awkward use of a prepositional phrase.
“My Heart is a Wiffle Ball/Freedom Pole”
Guess the celebrity author of this breathtaking poem, without using Google.
Monday Trivia, No. 151 [gingergene wins!]
More multinational trivia this week, including a complete (ish) table. Whether it’s better to be on top or on bottom of this list is to some extent a matter of opinion.
