This post represents a symbolic benchmark for me. Not of any particular significance, the number 2,000 seems nevertheless to carry some import, and I can use the occasion of the 2,000th published post on this blog to engage in some… Continue Reading
The Wife pointed out that my Marriage Hypothetical post was confusing. A fair criticism — I took a background that will look like a law school exam and used it to pose normative questions. Of course, I was trying to… Continue Reading
I’ve been kind of sick recently. Not really interested in reading things, writing about things, or anything else for that matter. So not much writing. I shouldn’t have even really ventured out to see Indiana Jones, at least not the… Continue Reading
I mean, they just appeared, out of nowhere. Wazzupwitdat? Go ahead and play with them. I doubt you’ll break the blog. UPDATE: They only seem to appear in Firefox; at least, they’re not here when I look at them on… Continue Reading
A little bit less than 1,900 people died as a result of Hurricane Katrina, all but two of them in the New Orleans and southern Mississippi region. Yet the landfall of a cyclone in Yangon, Myanmar, which has killed over… Continue Reading
Over three hundred entries in my blog reader this morning. I can’t possibly get to them all and thanks to prolific professional bloggers, I’ll never catch up. So some of it will just go unread. Another issue in an information-based… Continue Reading
I’ve received some e-mails that offer what look like pretty viable defenses to this lawsuit. I’m not 100% sure they would win, but these are viable legal arguments against it. First, the civilian courts should not be the forum that… Continue Reading
A grad student from Cal got arrested taking photographs and otherwise doing journalism in Egypt. As the authorities are hauling him away, he uses his cell phone to post a one-word message on his Twitter blog: “Arrested.” Tipped off to… Continue Reading
This is about the most horrible story out of New York I’ve seen in a long time. It’s very hard to opine on the verdict, not knowing all the facts of why the police began shooting at these men who… Continue Reading
A relative sent me a video of a debate between an evolutionary biologist and a creationism advocate. Better yet, a young-earth creationist. I’ve sent him back a rather detailed critique of what I saw — suffice to say here that… Continue Reading