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16 Jul 2009, 1:27 pm
Microsoft, which occasionally gets bored doing pure evil, has posted videos of a series of lectures that extraordinary scientist and teacher Richard Feynman gave 45 years ago. [read post]
11 Aug 2009, 12:29 pm
Eugene Volokh notes this passage from a Delaware court’s child custody ruling, discussing a father’s choice of what movies his roughly 14-year-old could watch: This Court also has concern regarding Father’s decision-making in allowing [son] to watch certain R-rated movies. [read post]
23 Aug 2009, 2:17 pm
No need to worry about Jon Krakauer writing a book about me. [read post]
29 Aug 2009, 9:31 pm
Though I use Facebook, I scorn in. [read post]
3 Sep 2009, 9:40 am
Or at least not lazy… As I was walking by the Moscone Center (San Francisco’s huge convention center) this morning, I noticed that all of the buses that conferences hire to shuttle folks between the convention and the various hotels (and which double as sight seeing buses) had Wyoming license plates. [read post]
15 Sep 2009, 2:02 pm
Another great moment for the “most liberal President ever”, as today the Obama administration announced that it supported extending several of the more onerous provisions of the Patriot Act, most importantly the business records and roving wiretap sections. [read post]
28 Oct 2009, 10:37 am
Via Talking Points Memo, a great little story about a report that representatives of the Pharma giant Hoffman-LaRoche were picketing one of Obama’s Health Care meetings, and comparing him to Hitler (complete with little moustaches on his photos!) [read post]
11 Mar 2010, 11:30 am
As long as we’re piling on stupid protesters today: U-Dub might want to take a close look at their remedial English program. [read post]
18 Mar 2010, 10:19 am
Unsurprisingly, I love political boardgames. [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 10:08 am
Nobody listens to me, really. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 7:47 am
Really, Google News. [read post]
3 Apr 2009, 8:43 am
In the latest setback for my hope that the mainstream media will treat international adoption as something other than a freakshow or a punchline, Madonna’s effort to adopt another child from Malawi has been rejected on the grounds that she was apparently unwilling to fulfill Malawi’s residency requirement. [read post]
28 Oct 2009, 3:14 pm
Proving that dead tree journalism still has life, the Seattle Times has a terrific two-parter on the downfall of Washington Mutual. [read post]
8 Apr 2009, 8:31 am
Former Detroit City Attorney Kathleen Leavey, who resigned under fire after referring to a city court covering a majority black district as a “Ghetto Court,” is suing for racial discrimination. [read post]
5 Jun 2009, 2:03 pm
Britain’s Minister for European Affairs, the Honourable Caroline Flint, has resigned in the general Labour Party bloodbath. [read post]
9 Jun 2009, 7:48 pm
I’m back baby! [read post]
1 Jul 2009, 4:27 pm
They may look weird, but they can dance: The weirdo who doesn’t dance is playing a shamisen. [read post]
10 Jul 2009, 12:35 pm
Last June we talked about a Washington D.C. police initiative under which cops at at military-style checkpoints would stop drivers entering certain neighborhoods, demand to know their business, and expel them if they could not answer in a satisfactory manner. [read post]
26 Aug 2009, 1:38 pm
The moments in which I find political and cultural reality impossible to satirize — or impossible to distinguish from satire — are becoming more and more frequent. [read post]
21 Sep 2009, 10:01 pm
Heather Monday on media reaction to videos of ACORN shenanigans: From Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace suggests to ACORN’s Bertha Lewis that the hit job done on them which I think amounts to entrapment by the conservative film maker James O’Keefe means that the improvements made under Lewis’ watch are meaningless. 1. [read post]
