Is it my imagination, or is this thing running long? …Update by SL: I’ve mostly had it on the background while writing–which is easy given that they’re giving out roughly one award every two hours–but aren’t those human shadow puppet things atrocious even by the standards of pointless kitchy Oscar timewasters? …Ah, what I’d waited […]
Category: nonsense
Sometime last year, Rob posted a clip of Orson Welles — swaying and slurring with drink — trying to navigate his way through a television commercial. It was brilliant. For no particular re
Just as the addition of Steve Vai to Whitesnake produced the legendary 1989 album Slip of the Tongue, I expect that the unification of Matt Duss with Alterdestiny will lead to great things.
I have to sympathize with Chris Bertram’s comment on Scott McLemee’s Solidarity Forever. The post is in reference to McLemee’s interview with Danny Postrel at Inside Higher Ed. The substance of the interview is the argument that the American and European Left is insufficiently sympathetic to Iranian dissidents because either a) the Left can’t get […]
UPDATED!! Q: Are you lawyers?A: Not all of us, although this is a common misperception. Paul Campos is, in fact, a law professor. Q: Do you have any guns?A: No. One of us does have a baseball bat, tho
I wonder if this sentence could have been better constructed… A ninth-grade dropout, she rose quickly from life as a small-town wife and mother to a highly visible, and sparsely clad, career as
When nerd worlds clash, hilarity ensues.
More school makes you live longer. Instead, Dr. Smith and others say, what may make the biggest difference is keeping young people in school. A few extra years of school is associated with extra years
In my last days as a resident. . . For those not native, Seattle lacks good mass transit. We have no trains. Part of the reason for this lies with the fatal terror of any reasonable taxation. Neverthe
United Airlines overbooks a 120 seat aircraft. At the gate, a 102 seat aircraft arrives. This causes an obvious problem. Is it my problem? Not really. Why? Because I get a free round-trip anywhere in the lower 48 and a free first class upgrade for the next flight, leaving in an hour. I spend my […]