Driving through town today, I saw confirmation of a creeping suspicion that I have lately been having: over the past couple weeks there has been an influx of vagrants in the Callie area. Or dirty hippies. Or something. It started… Continue Reading
Things are a bit tough at the moment. You’re telling a young woman who at the moment thinks far too much of you that you think it would be best for everybody involved if you went your separate ways. Everything… Continue Reading
Mating: [M1] I’ve written a couple of times about the way our society is structured against early marriage and parenthood. Jacoba Urist thinks we should do something about it. [M2] Hugo Schwyzer explains why men need to find women their… Continue Reading
For whatever reason, this has not been shared on any of the blogs I frequent despite it being instructive on the future of the surveillance state. The Wall Street Journal notes the gobsmacking ineffectiveness of our efforts to stop terrorism:… Continue Reading
I was quite pleasantly surprised when the Obama administration responded quickly for allowing cell phone users to unlock their phones. There has been some misunderstanding about what unlocking a cell phone means. It basically only means that you can prevent… Continue Reading
One of the first anime I got into was Ranma 1/2. It was all the rage at the time. The basic premise is that Ranma Saotome fell into an accursed spring and now he turns into a she any time… Continue Reading
For its national holiday, Portugal has selected the birthday of Luis Vaz de Camões, the poet who wrote Os Lusíadas, the national epic celebrating the voyages of discovery. Like many great artists, Camões struggled financially during his lifetime but has emerged over… Continue Reading
A couple weeks ago, I linked to an article talking about the PPACA’s Exchanges – the mechanism by which those with pre-existing conditions will be insurable. Rick Ungar said: Upon reviewing the data, I was indeed shocked by the proposed… Continue Reading
A Midwest-focused puzzle this week, in honor of our recently-concluded Leaguefest: Iowa has 29.40%, putting it far ahead of North Carolina (13.77%) and Minnesota (11.92%). No other state reaches the double digits in terms of percentage. Single-digit percentages, in descending order,… Continue Reading
Patrick is almost exactly wrong about The-Government-Has-Been-Collecting-Information-On-All-Our-Phone-Calls-gate: Look, people, you don’t want this stuff going on any more? Look up your Congressional representatives’ voting records and act accordingly. Your Facebook memes are useless. Actually, your Facebook memes are probably the… Continue Reading