Half Sigma argues that iPhones are the worst MP3 players ever. The comments about how MP3 playing isn’t what iPhones are for begs the question: why not? There really isn’t any good reason. And especially no good reason that this… Continue Reading
Chuck Thompson has a book out called Better Off Without ’Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession. While researching for the book, he traveled along the south and was, for some reason, not graciously received. He writes: If it did… Continue Reading
When I write a multiple choice question, I like to come up with at least one of four answers that is clearly wrong. Ideally, there are two obviously wrong answers, one “maybe-it-might-be-right” answer and one correct answer. But at least… Continue Reading
It begins with a momentary disorientation. “What is that?” I say. Then I realize that the “that” which I have been unable to identify the thing that I am looking directly at. A blind spot has manifested at the exact focus of my… Continue Reading
As part of my continuing intermittent series of posts publicly worrying about California lighting its money on fire with a high speed rail construction project, I offer another post publicly worrying about California lighting its money on fire with a high… Continue Reading
Around election time, on Hit Coffee I pondered whether Romney’s loss would have any effect on the LDS Church: [A] change of trajectory somewhere along the line does seem possible. The Romney loss could play a roll in it, but… Continue Reading
So said TalkLeft’s Jeralyn Merritt: Why Zimmerman reported Trayvon to the non-emergency number is a red herring. It doesn’t matter if he profiled him or unfairly suspected him of criminal activity. It doesn’t matter that he was a crime warrior.… Continue Reading
Kazzy: I wish I didn’t care so much about any of this. But I do. The baby should change that, right? [pauses… looks around… sees baby-sized LSU T-shirt Zazzy bought at Gap] Nope. Apparently not. Trumwill:
A little while ago, I got a really sweet deal on a used smartphone off eBay. It had a crack running through a corner of it and was a lower-range model to begin with (though the specs were fine). I… Continue Reading
I’ve lived in the desert for a long time — I grew up here, and I’ve been here six years since I came back from Tennessee. But until tonight, I’d never seen a wild kit fox out in the desert.… Continue Reading