My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. — Tom Waits...
D.A. Ridgely
D.A. Ridgely holds degrees in philosophy and law. (He doesn't really hold them, they just hang there on the wall or peek out as initials after his name. (Actually, that isn't true, either. Those are mere symbols giving evidence of his possession of those degrees. (“Possession,” strictly speaking, being a metaphor of sorts.)))
(He is overly fond of parenthetical expressions.)
Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin...
The Department of Justice is reported to have arrived at a settlement in lieu of antitrust litigation...
This just in: Lee Harvey Oswald’s Grassy Knoll accomplice in JFK assassination was probably an Amazonian native.
The New York Times yesterday reported: “The same people driving the lawsuits that seek to dismantle the...
I. We’re going to have the best educated American people in the world. – Dan Quayle Recent...
In a recent post by Mr. Thompson entitled “Wikileaks on The Wire,” one commenter said he thought...
There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education. — Will Rogers . Constant...
2000 (UN International Year for Declaring Peace Is Better Than War) – Stunned by the near collapse...
It’s the 39th anniversary of the semi-legendary D.B. Cooper’s hijacking of a Boeing 727 for $200,00 ransom....
Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others. — Groucho Marx When I...
At Crooked Timber, John Holbo considers whether the Social Security Trust Fund (legally, the Federal Old-Age and...
“Cancer surviving flight attendant forced to remove prosthetic breast during pat-down.” UPDATE (credit Oleg Volk):
“Can you play chess without the Queen?” – Ludwig Wittgenstein Moving from one blog to another and...
I am not an economist, nor do I play one on the internet. In fact, I’ve never...
As a general rule, congressional bipartisanship is the political equivalent of the Crips and the Bloods banding...
Credit: Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing (H/T Mona via Thoreau)
Joe Camel, Aging Hipster: If R.J. Reynolds’ niche marketing to Williamsburg hipsters succeeds, can we soon expect...
Some people move from pillar to post. Some can’t hold a steady job. In my case, I...
