A Citizen’s Top Style Choices
In a hurry this morning. The Wall Street Journal ran a long interview with tailor Ethan Newton who, we learn, is moving to Hong Kong. Mazel Tov to him. After…
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SETI Goes Deaf
The Allen Telescope Array run by SETI---Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence---has been forced into hibernation because of the lack of money (Mercury News story). The electronic ears will remain planted on…
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Men’s Fashion
Happy Easter! As you don your new bonnets and climb into your finest to celebrate, provided here in one spot are all articles on men's fashion. Hats Stunning New Book!…
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Predict The Next Strangest Government Regulation
Perhaps the most fantastical regulation to launch recently from the collective hive-mind of the federal bureaucracy is the one which administrates the very breath of life. Yes, the Environmental Protection…
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The Impossibility Of Minimizing Your Environmental “Impact”
I like the word impact, especially in sentences of the type, "The missile impacted on the insurgents' hideout, killing all inside." But it leaves me cold and vaguely homicidal to…
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I Am The Cause Of All Discrimination In The United States Of America
Today's post is at Pajama's Media, "The Cause of All Discrimination? Me: One man makes a shocking confession." Logically, if there is discrimination, there must be discriminators and discriminatees. Who,…
Put Down That Salt!
This is an appropriate day to repost a classic article, especially given this story in the Daily Mail with the headline "The town that's banned salt." And don't forget our…
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University Professors Teach Too Much: Part IV
Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. I know there wasn't supposed to be a Part IV, but at the risk of boring you, and since this is…