Month: May 2012

Clancy is scrambling to get through all of her charts so that she can fly back home for her cousin’s wedding. It has, to this point, involved parking herself at a coffee shop* before heading to the office, where she… Continue Reading →

The First Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling in the companion cases of Gill v. Office of Personnel Management and Massachusetts v. Department of Health and Human Services this morning. To the surprise of absolutely no one, a unanimous… Continue Reading →

Doug Mataconis and Steven Taylor go back and forth on whether the Constitution is too hard to amend. This is an area where my instincts are to agree with Mataconis, but where I actually agree with Taylor rather strongly. One… Continue Reading →

One of the reasons I’ve resisted Twitter for so long has exploded into reality less than a week since I opened an account. That reason is my dislike of noise. Worse, the noise is arising between parties I have regard… Continue Reading →

Stephen Taylor picks up a line by EDK and runs with it: While I can understand why a given person might have a philosophical gripe about specific policies in given European country, the contempt that the continent as whole is… Continue Reading →

As has been said elsewhere, it was simply a blast. I’ve never had a meeting-of-Internet strangers that went so well. I wouldn’t say so if there was anyone I didn’t like and come away calling a friend, but I liked… Continue Reading →

Hendricks gin. Tonic water. Cucumber. Ice. Shouldn’t taste bitter. Did the guy use club soda instead of tonic? As indignities suffered in airports go I realize this isn’t going to elicit tears of outrage. But all the same I’m paying… Continue Reading →

I pay for high speed Internet at home. And I have a legacy data package from my cell phone provider that gives me all-I-can-eat data. And I have a “tablet” that works exclusively on wi-fi and not a cellular network.… Continue Reading →

I may or may not get around to writing a full post on this, but I did want to put something out there in case I don’t have the time to expand on it: Soldiers are one of the comparatively… Continue Reading →