July 11, 2008
June 15, 2008
May 31, 2008
Snitching
Predictably, the oxen gored by McClellan's book, apparently having nothing to wield by way of refutation, have hauled out Big Smircha and fired rounds of character slime, mostly (i) if he thought it was wrong, why didn't he speak up at the time? and the less closely reasoned (ii) ya lousy dirty cheaty rat basset snitch! Tim Rutten reflects on...
April 30, 2008
Moldova = Wal-Mart — smiley-face
The distance to the Moon is 253-thousand Moldovans, laid end-to-end.
April 22, 2008
March 30, 2008
March 29, 2008
March 08, 2008
Separated at birth?
President of Turkey, Abdullah Gül, and celebrated character actor Dennis Farina...
March 07, 2008
March 02, 2008
February 28, 2008
Worthwhile Canadian-Liechtensteinian initiative
Liechtenstein got it right on the European Court of Human Rights.
February 27, 2008
February 24, 2008
February 20, 2008
February 11, 2008
What is is with these ridiculous watches?
In the Wildavsky Forum Lecture that led to his most recent book, Bob Frank had the audience in stitches with an exploration of the wristwatches of the rich. The key exhibit was a device with several plush-covered wrists, each of which can hold a watch and wave it back and forth to keep it wound. Why in the world would...
February 03, 2008
November 23, 2007
November 01, 2007
October 28, 2007
Hallowe'en Grinch
I have had two good and, as a child, a few so-so ones. The first good one occurred when at about eight or nine, my friends and I read about trick-or-treating and decided to try it - in Manhattan. In a city of apartment houses, one can hit a lot of homes in an evening going up and down corridors....
May 08, 2007
Immigration and mangled names
I was planning to reflect on the French elections but distracted myself by the following peripheral issue (substance to follow in another post): We need to figure out how to say the new president's name. In the US media, it's been accented on the second and third syllables or pronounced with no particular stress, and with an initial s as...
