I remember as a teenager I liked Jeff Healey’s blues-rock album. The kid from Canada, struck with blindness since he was one year old, who taught himself how to play guitar, was such a good story, and the album was… Continue Reading
Famous deaths — would modern medical technology have been able to save the victims? A doctor in Montana offers his opinion: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, James Garfield and William McKinley would have made it. Robert Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln would probably… Continue Reading
I understand about hunting and its role in contemporary wildlife management. Really, I do. Without hunters taking deer, for instance, America’s forested and semi-forested lands would soon be absolutely overrun with the creatures, which would within a year or two… Continue Reading
It’s getting so you can’t believe what anyone says anymore. No one writes their own material, and even when they do, it’s nothing but fiction. A best-seller in Europe has been a story of a woman who describes the Nazis… Continue Reading
Time to short-sell all those five-year bonds. Turns out the world will end on December 21, 2012. At least, at that point we’ll have gone off the Maya Long Count Calendar, an ingenius system for measuring epochal spans of time… Continue Reading
Today marks the first time that the Euro has traded for $1.50 in U.S. money. That’s right, a buck fifty buys you only a single Euro. This is not good news for Americans planning to live abroad right at this… Continue Reading
Turns out, the U.S. Mint took less than twenty-four hours to reject a proposed “state quarter” design offered to Washington, D.C. that included the city’s official motto, “Taxation Without Representation.” (Note, though, that the Federal District’s official motto is “Justicia… Continue Reading
Today’s “kid with a mohawk” story is brought to you by way of Parma, Ohio, where a six-year-old has been suspended from a charter school for having the distinctive haircut. “I understand they have a dress code,” the mother of… Continue Reading
You know when you’re on a bad blind date. But you may not know how bad it can be. That’s when you need to rely on other people to help you out. If you don’t have a friend nearby, you’d… Continue Reading
And she should be. Here are her controversial remarks, in context. It’s clear enough to me that this was not an offhand comment, but one that at least a little thought went into. Very little thought, but more than zero:… Continue Reading