Month: January 2012

I did tabletop RPGs as my hobby when I was a teenager, and when I went off to college and discovered just how many girls there were, I sort of lost interest in things like Dungeons and Dragons. But a… Continue Reading →

The top five states are: Delaware (40.3%), Maine (37.8%), South Dakota (35.3%), Nevada (34.9%), and Montana (33.4%). The bottom five states are: Florida (13.8%), New York (13.2%), Nebraska (12.3%), Virginia (11.4%), and California (10.1%). It probably says something about me… Continue Reading →

Gillian Tett laments the partisanship of news: [Excerpt Redacted] This isn’t exactly… errr… news. But I thought the juxtoposition was interesting. As she opened, one of the first thoughts that crossed my mind was “other countries have partisan news outlets,… Continue Reading →

It’s been over twenty-four hours since I wrote about Newt Gingrich, so I’ll complete my trilogy of observations about his insurgency here. I’d be less interested in Gingrich if it didn’t look for all the world like he’s about to… Continue Reading →

Felix Salmon complains about a pricing innovation I had not yet heard of: ATM’s working off a percentage fee rather than a flat fee. Or, as these things generally go, whichever fee is greater. In the case he cites, it’s… Continue Reading →

If everyone said they saw “X” and you didn’t, would your first instinct be to wonder if there was something wrong with your vision, that “X” was there and you had somehow missed it? Make It worse – what if… Continue Reading →

At Blinded Trials, co-blogger Will Truman offers this story: …one of the reasons that my wife’s hospital is short-staffed on obstetrical services is that one of the doctors refuses to deliver any more babies after a prolonged lawsuit (that he… Continue Reading →

Newt Gingrich channels the legend of Andrew Jackson*: [Gingrich] told a forum of anti-abortion activists ahead of South Carolina’s primary election that as president he would ignore supreme court rulings he regards as legally flawed. He implied that would also… Continue Reading →

As I have mentioned in the past, it’s a bit ironic that so many of the white cross arguments involve Utah. By “white cross” arguments, I mean the desire on the part of secularists to do away with the tradition… Continue Reading →

The Wife and I had a dinner party for two other married couples and a single friend over the weekend. But I did not have to miss substantial amounts of time, and found preparation significantly well relaxed, because of good… Continue Reading →