Doggie-Friendly Wanderlust
As many of my friends know, I have a penchant for travel, for going to places different than my usual haunts. Even when we lived in a place as beautiful as Tennessee, I found that being in the same old… Continue Reading
As many of my friends know, I have a penchant for travel, for going to places different than my usual haunts. Even when we lived in a place as beautiful as Tennessee, I found that being in the same old… Continue Reading
There are now no more sprites, pixies, leprechauns, elves, or dwarves left in the Presidential race. (According to The Wife, there is still one gnome.) The release of one Democratic delegate to “uncommitted” status will … not affect things at… Continue Reading
I like low taxes and I like getting tax refunds. I like money. But from a policy perspective, I’m not sure I like the idea of nearly every man, woman, and child in the country getting cold, hard cash from… Continue Reading
It’s a slogan in our justice system that it’s better that a thousand guilty men walk free than one innocent man go to prison. Somehow, though, a lot of people people don’t seem to actualize that slogan. The media has… Continue Reading
What is it with Presidents named Bush? They like to leave messy foreign policy entanglements for their successors to deal with. The first President Bush left Somalia and Bosnia, and his successor could no more find a clean, politically satisfactory… Continue Reading
When the technical kinks get worked out, it’ll cost you $200,000 for a ride into outer space. You’d get about four and a half minutes of weightlessness and the view would be astonishing. I can only imagine what the stars… Continue Reading
We need judges and juries. People whose critical thinking skills are not under anesthesia. We need to trust these people to sort through the good cases from the bad ones. The system works fine with smart people who can see… Continue Reading
The Wife goes to bed these days at something like 7:30 in the evening. (She gets up very early, too, which is why it seems on some days I barely see her.) So that leaves me on many nights to… Continue Reading
A prize-winning cartoon based on the classic story of The Three Little Pigs has been deemed ineligible for British governmental award eligibility because… Wait for it…It might offend Muslims. The thing of it is, the kinds of Muslims who might… Continue Reading
From time to time, because I do things like talk with students about political theory, I hear arguments that a parliamentary system is better than what we have in the U.S.A. Italy, for instance, has a parliamentary system, and there… Continue Reading