You sometimes wonder whether talking heads say offensive things intentionally or whether gaffes pop out of them more or less at random. For instance, I could be persuaded that Bill O’Reilly suggesting that a little boy saw an upside to… Continue Reading
Why is it that every project involved in getting this house into move-in condition takes twice as long and costs twice as much as we had originally budgeted? That weekend we were out of the house because of the check… Continue Reading
1. I do not like ketchup. For some people, not liking ketchup would be like not liking sex. But I really dislike the stuff. Oh, it’s nasty, I gag just thinking about it. On or in anything. If I am… Continue Reading
If you enjoy air travel, you’ll see the genius in this Indian entrepreneur’s new business. For those of us who would prefer a night in a Turkish prison to contemporary air travel, it is beyond perversity.
Aayan Hirsi Ali is the modern face of courage and enlightenment. The political leaders of the Netherlands, by contrast, are proving themselves to be craven and short-sighted. A quick biography: Hirsi Ali was born in Somalia, the daughter of a… Continue Reading
My favorite new prominent international villain, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, received a chillier, and more sharply critical, reception today at Tehran University than he got at Columbia a few weeks ago. By the way, the word “villain” traces its etymology to… Continue Reading
I couldn’t figure out how to mount the light fixtures. It looked to me like some genius installed the original (ugly) bathroom light fixtures in Soffit House with three-inch conduit. You could run a municipal electrical main with conduit that… Continue Reading
A major, industrialized country, armed with nuclear weapons, elects a fundamentalist religious leader, and is defended by a military staffed with religious fanatics. A small group of self-selected religious elites directs the ideology from which the political and military leadership… Continue Reading
Senator Larry Craig’s petition to withdraw his plea of guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct in a Minneapolis airport restroom has been denied. The judge was not kind to the Senator’s petition, characterized as “illogical”: “During the two months… Continue Reading
The description of this product makes me drool like Homer Simpson. Where do I get me some of these?