I often marvel at how quickly my dog eats her food. It’s as though she were starving; she wolfs it down as fast as possible. Whenever there is not a significant price difference, I buy the smaller-sized dog food so… Continue Reading
…Hillary doesn’t have a chance. He knows because he told an offensive joke and didn’t get the reaction he expected. Yes, that Penn, one of the guys who makes Bullshit! and does magic shows in Vegas. Well, what works in… Continue Reading
The small city of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania has become the latest battleground in the apparently silly but ultimately consequential discussion about religion in public life in America. The whole thing started with a series of advertisements, which I first saw back… Continue Reading
Apparently, there is a gigantic shitstorm of social criticism about Juno — there is backlash against the movie and counter-backlash against the backlash. I thought it started out as a humorously funny movie which got far too weepy for my… Continue Reading
More discussion of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s remarks from Christopher Hitchens here. Hitchens provides an extreme example of why the public interest should be taken into account when a court decides whether or not to enforce a “parallel” court that… Continue Reading
Presidential primaries are not about winning votes, they’re about winning delegates to the party’s conventions. I still think, therefore, that Barack Obama won New Hampshire, not Hillary Clinton, because he got more delegates from that state than she did. Annoyingly,… Continue Reading
It’s a good thing to see stupid beer regulation laws slowly going off the books. Pennsylvania is considering getting rid of its “case laws,” which require that beer stores (which are, as I take it, different than liquor stores) only… Continue Reading
Seems that my thoughts yesterday about the potential for a U.S. court to enforce Islamic law were shared by Prof. Eugene Volokh. It was, I thought, one of my more thought-provoking finds recently. Prof. Volokh, however, has considerably more research… Continue Reading
Today, I watched Chinatown with a movie club. What a great movie that was. Every detail fits nicely into place. The movie club analyzes the movies from a psychological perspective, and more specifically from a Freudian perspective. But I have… Continue Reading
It’s a measure of the relative economic strengths of a country as to which nation’s currency enjoys wider acceptance. This makes it very disturbing to see that stores and restaraunts in New York City have begun accepting payment in Euros.… Continue Reading