More multinational trivia this week, including a complete (ish) table. Whether it's better to be on top...
Burt Likko
Pseudonymous Portlander. Pursuer of happiness. Bon vivant. Homebrewer. Atheist. Recovering Republican. Recovering Catholic. Recovering divorcé. Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Ordinary Times. Relapsed Lawyer, admitted to practice law (under his real name) in California and Oregon. There's a Twitter account at @burtlikko, but not used for posting on the general feed anymore.
House Likko's Words:
Scite Verum.
Colite Iusticia.
Vivere Con Gaudium.
Good graphic design should be simple and communicate in an immediately powerful way. Here's an example.
Noam Scheiber makes a radical suggestion. Eric Posner has lots of reasons why it'll never work. Burt...
Renting a high-quality video camera setup and hiring a guy to operate it must be substantially more...
So, that Stephen Glass guy. Tried to become a lawyer. Whatever happened to him?
By chance, sometimes the U.S. News and World Report rankings provide actual insight validated by empirical evidence....
This appears to be the trendy item to have in your kitchen this season. But, what to...
By special request: Burt Likko reflects on a dozen or so not-particularly-glamorous cases from early in his...
The Republicans' hope for capturing the governorship of California in 2014. No, really.
What's to do when some parent (who obviously isn't you because of course you have better judgment...
Burt Likko is no rail engineer. But he is a lawyer, and that means he can offer...
The least self-aware quote since "Only a Sith thinks in absolutes!"
A collaborative post by Chris and Burt Likko, telling the story of Zora Neale Hurston, an American...
What happens when the professor just plain gives away all the answers?
What would J. Edgar have said about this?
Now, before you get all in a huff about the California Supreme Court admitting an undocumented alien...
Step right up for some fearless prognostication!
Only five nations, including one that no longer exists, are on this week's list.
A dramatic comparison between objective and per-capita listings for this weeks' puzzle.