I really like this photograph of our next President. It’s a detail of a photo that was taken earlier today by an AP photographer who is assigned to the Obama beat in Honolulu. Hawaii is a pretty reliably Democratic state,… Continue Reading
In 1954, a woman in Minnesota claimed that aliens had told her that on December 20 of that year, all of civilization would be wiped out in a catastrophic global flood. The story of how that woman attracted a cult… Continue Reading
In my opinion, one of the most coveted jobs a person can have is to be an NFL quarterback. A starting quarterback. One of the elite 32 best football players alive. You earn millions of dollars. Your name is on… Continue Reading
At fivethirtyeight.com,* the spot-polling report is that women are more critical of McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin than men. This is no particular surprise to me. My experience in front of juries leads me to believe that women tend to… Continue Reading
It would be a shame if something like this happened to this blog. I invite comments from people who disagree with me, particularly when they can articulate some kind of a reason why they disagree. That doesn’t mean I won’t… Continue Reading
Today’s big intellectual stimulation was a thorough dissection of Taxi Driver, the 1973 Robert De Niro – Martin Scorcese movie. De Niro’s character, Travis Bickle, is a mass of irreconcilable contradictions, driven past the edge of psychosis by the demons… Continue Reading
I’ve often wondered how I got a woman as lovely as my wife to marry me. Some guy at the University of Tennessee has a reasonable-enough sounding explanation. Basically, women seek out partners who will be supporting of them while… Continue Reading
IDeclining Marriage Rates Why aren’t Brits getting married anymore? The marriage rate is at a historic low in the UK – the marriage rate is lower now than since the Brits started keeping records of this sort of thing, and… Continue Reading
There’s lots of stuff I don’t know that weighs on my mind tonight. …I don’t know why it is that some things just irritate me so much. I’m happy to pitch in and do household chores and do my part… Continue Reading
I have no idea what this chart means. It was offered, in another forum, to prove that poor people smoke more than rich people do (and therefore that a tax on cigarettes is regressive). But as far as I can… Continue Reading