Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. — F. […]
Month: October 2014
If you choose not to decide, a Canadian philosopher once observed, you still have made a choice. When it comes to the Supreme Court and same-sex marriage, it’s at least a second-best-case scenar
As some of you may know from twitter, last Thursday Erik’s new apartment was burglarized. He lost two computers (one from URI, one of his own), two external harddrives, and a truckload of digi
Sweeep! If the Mariners couldn’t be involved, an Orioles-Royals ALCS is certainly my second-best scenario. There was a recent discussion in comments about the recently modified wildcard system. I feel more strongly than ever that if there must be a wildcards, the two-wildcard sudden-death format that preserves much of the value of a division title […]
There’s phoning it in, there’s not being able to muster up the energy it would take to dial a number, and then there’s whatever it is that Samuel L. Jackson is doing here: [via]
If not, I’m gonna nominate this guy.
Shorter Verbatim Naomi Wolf: “A Pakistani lawyer who is a fourth-generation scion of a major Pakistani political family explained what I keep hearing from many parts of the plugged in educated elite of the Middle East: ISIS, he said, is grassroots Wahabism – the extreme and brutal “version” of Islam (many moderates say it bears […]
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the first aerial combat victory: On August 25, Roland Garros and Lt. de Bernis became the first flyers to damage an enemy aircraft. Flying a Morane Parasol, they s
On October 5, 1886, Henry George accepted the nomination of the United Labor Party for the mayor of New York City. Although a quixotic effort, both labor’s attempt to create an alternative to th
Someone call CPS. From an interview with Robert Duvall: Do you intend to keep working for as long as you can? Well, somewhat. I just finished directing a movie called “Wild Horses.” All we had was 2.2 million bucks and 23 days, but we had terrific people. Matthew McConaughey’s nephew, Miller Lyte McConaughey, is 8 […]
Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier dies. The world cries. Oh wait, no it doesn’t.
Sometimes one needs to be reminded that Charlie is a national treasure: So, on Tuesday, we had a sprawling mess of a German opera that nonetheless turned into a classic game between the Royals and the