Education: [Ed1] Abel Keogh ponders the his third grade son being given a (closed) email address. [Ed2] Private schools are struggling. A lot of what people used to need private schools, they now have charter schools for. [Ed3] National Journal… Continue Reading
I’m not so good at this Photoshop stuff: Yesterday I took these three pictures with my phone from a point about two miles from my home, near the California Aqueduct. The wind at that location was about 25 miles an… Continue Reading
Abigail Rine has a triumphant piece at The Atlantic about how some Evangelicals are rethinking the whole virginity thing: In a recent summit on human trafficking at Johns Hopkins University, kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart made some surprising remarks about why… Continue Reading
Tod Kelly asks me for the “[f]ive worst horror movies of all time… Not just badly made, but so unwatchable, boringly bad that even as a bad horror movie aficionado you would rather punch kittens than have to sit through them again?”… Continue Reading
Sayeth NewDealer: Mega-Conglomerates and international trade are not relatively knew. They are as old as civilization. The Mega Conglomerate can be dated to the days of the various East and West Indies Companies if not before. Also Llyod’s of London.… Continue Reading
Will H. solicits my opinion on William Howard Taft, both as President and Chief Justice. Briefly: he had a solid procedural and administrative approach to both jobs, but he made a number of decisions which I find substantively unpalatable. He… Continue Reading
Matthew Yglesias defense Qualify Coffee’s “coffee roaster internship” program: Their calculus is that, rather than picking who to hire first and then train them, it makes more sense to train first and see who does the best job of taking… Continue Reading
I’ve always been a little bit intimidated by chess. People assume that I’m good at it and I’m not. I suck. So I downloaded a chess game for my kindle tablet and I’ve been diving in. I figure, if I… Continue Reading
Mike Schilling asks: “What’s wrong with the Dodgers?” Which I’ve been steaming about for a while. There’s only one possible answer at this point. It isn’t lack of talent. The Dodgers have the second-highest payroll in Major League Baseball, given healthy… Continue Reading
Will Truman writes about one of the latest twists in the security-obsessed United States: the push to lower lower legal blood alcohol limits. Will’s claim that we are unable to accept even minimal amounts of risk seems obvious to me,… Continue Reading