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A seven hour visit to a new city cannot possibly give you a complete and fully accurate idea of what it would be like to live there. But it can make a good impression. Work took me to Portland, Oregon… Continue Reading →

There has been a lot of text spilled involve New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s soda ban in New York City. A lot of the commentary, seems to miss what I consider to be the central points. The central dilemma is,… Continue Reading →

It takes a lot longer to make an omelette than it does to eat one. The imbalance resolves, at least in part, by slowing down to enjoy the meal. I associate this bit of wisdom with my experiences as a… Continue Reading →

John Edwards will never be president. He will never get a cabinet appointment. He is no longer a defendant. What is going on in his life is no longer any of our business. Meanwhile, he has a new child to… Continue Reading →

My trip down to Vegas took me through Utah. There were some things that jumped out at me as worthy of note: They’re combating Fatigued Driving in a constructive way. This is an issue that’s important to me because back… Continue Reading →

Clancy is scrambling to get through all of her charts so that she can fly back home for her cousin’s wedding. It has, to this point, involved parking herself at a coffee shop* before heading to the office, where she… Continue Reading →

The First Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling in the companion cases of Gill v. Office of Personnel Management and Massachusetts v. Department of Health and Human Services this morning. To the surprise of absolutely no one, a unanimous… Continue Reading →

Doug Mataconis and Steven Taylor go back and forth on whether the Constitution is too hard to amend. This is an area where my instincts are to agree with Mataconis, but where I actually agree with Taylor rather strongly. One… Continue Reading →

One of the reasons I’ve resisted Twitter for so long has exploded into reality less than a week since I opened an account. That reason is my dislike of noise. Worse, the noise is arising between parties I have regard… Continue Reading →

Stephen Taylor picks up a line by EDK and runs with it: While I can understand why a given person might have a philosophical gripe about specific policies in given European country, the contempt that the continent as whole is… Continue Reading →