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Ed Begley Jr., Peter Boyle, Jim Henson, Beverly D’Angelo, Angelina Jolie, Chris Kattan, Val Kilmer, Burt Lancaster, Fred Savage, Frank Sinatra, and Spencer Tracy would all be sad today. Why?

I put all this on my Kindle, so it would be easier to read than on a series of index cards. Normally I would memorize the important points and then improvise from there, but as will be obvious, I don’t… Continue Reading →

Cut a seedless watermelon into big rectangular strips, three-quarters of an inch to an inch thick. How big? You’ll harvest maybe three of them from the center part of the melon. Add a little bit of honey, sugar, or agave nectar,… Continue Reading →

Breaking — it appears that the New York State Senate is ready to vote on, and anticipate to approve, same-sex marriage. The lower house in New York has laready approved a slightly different version of the bill, and Governor Cuomo… Continue Reading →

James Joyner: Mitch McConnell’s candid admission that partisan politics is playing some role in Republican opposition to the war in Libya is refreshing. The fact that partisan politics no longer stops at the water’s edge, however, is a bad sign… Continue Reading →

I suppose the profanity isn’t strictly necessary, but there are times it adds a certain eloquence to what ought to be an obvious point.

After his tweet, Derek Thompson went to work to answer the same question I had asked: Why didn’t these 7,000 pay any income taxes. This is what he found: There are 433,000 tax units (individuals or families) reporting cash income… Continue Reading →

A guy named Nathan Wilkinson writes a great piece on the new cigarette labels: Today The FDA released the new pictures that must be on packages of cigarettes by October. These new pictures are meant to scare or change the… Continue Reading →

After a long, cold, windy spring, only last week did temperatures heat up and the wind die down to a livable level. Normally, I find the summer heat here in the desert oppressive but seriously, we’d been having arctic blast… Continue Reading →

When people ask what kind of law I do, often as not I’ll say “stolen houses.” Title fraud, shady finance deals, irregular sales contracts gone wrong (often as not involving sellers carrying paper back for the buyer), surveyors smoking stuff… Continue Reading →