Bubbles of Hilarity
Cathy‘s been about real estate for the past week or so, since Cathy and Irving got married and needed to merge their households. Who knew there was such h...
Cathy‘s been about real estate for the past week or so, since Cathy and Irving got married and needed to merge their households. Who knew there was such h...
Gaming does not mesh with the prevailing educational model. That said, I find Jenny‘s posts on the GLS conference sessions to be remarkable, if not fantas...
If you are of a certain age, you will have been a member at one time of either the RCA BMG Music Club or the Columbia House Music Club. This fine service, like ...
Zimran holds forth on how one might arbitrage the existing real estate prices, and then opines, Finally, I don’t buy the argument that population explains...
Zimbabwe Uproots Its Own: The government of Zimbabwe has launched a campaign to wipe out the country’s shantytowns — destroying tens of thousands of...
Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
We spent our third annual Father’s Day weekend in Lake George, New York. This year was a bit different because someone decided it would be a good time for...
The Big Sister goes to kindergarten in the Fall. On Tuesday, I went to an orientation session about the school buses, where I learned an interesting thing. The ...
The Group of Eight has agreed to forgive the debt owed them by the poor. I like this idea much more than simply giving poorer nations more money, regardless of ...
The New York State Senate passed S.1750, which, if passed by the Assembly, will modify the way New York allocates its electors. Modifies the election method for...
Thurston Moore, of Sonic Youth, on mix tapes: In those days, tape decks were as essential as turntables. And they were as bulky as well. But right around this t...
Mark Paschal points to Luke Gonze’s review of Randy Charles Morin‘s Universal Subscription Mechanism. For a while now I haven’t much cared abo...
Consider the case of a restaurant which wants to occupy a local historical landmark. All goes swimmingly until the owner finds that the town requires ten more p...
Grumbles upon receiving the school district's budget
Cato asks, Does anyone believe in Federalism anymore?
The kittens, rapidly becoming cats, are firm believers in the dining table principle of you snooze; you lose. It is thus in my self-interest to eat this steak a...
In a BusinessWeek article on how Microsoft is causing SBC to fall behind schedule — thanks, Bill — the authors don’t question a key market ass...
Does anyone pay attention to SGI anymore? Some years ago, SGI decided to discontinue development of systems using the MIPS processor, and to pursue development ...