Small Moments of Joy
I love waving to my daughters at the bus stop.
I love waving to my daughters at the bus stop.
Peggy Noonan is tired of the security theater at the airport. Why do we do this when you know I am not a terrorist, and you know I know you know I am not a terr...
Oh, look, it appears that we’ll make the Arabs happy by leaving them alone. Who knew?
The government’s pockets are only as deep as yours.
Shall we choose the profligate candidate, or the spendthrift? Where’s the frugal choice when you need one?
I have been serving on the board of the Dalton Farm Homeowner Association for almost a year. This past week we developed the budget for the next fiscal year. Th...
The Arlington Central School District sends out a newsletter every now and again — oddly enough around budget season. This time it includes a piece titled...
For those of you not paying attention, fuel costs are up. This change in circumstances changes the calculation of which mode of operation is optimal. In the cas...
via Arnold Kling, we learn that the State of California does not like home-schooling by parents who are not also teachers, on the assumption that certification ...
Today’s readings speak of God and Jesus as our shepherd. We’re most familiar with this metaphor in Psalm 23: The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not wa...
The bagel shop is raising prices. The pizza place is raising prices. And a six-pack of my favorite beer has just passed $10 at the grocer. What, you may ask, am...
I experienced a homograph attack on my productivity today, courtesy of Microsoft Word. This character, pasted here (–), looks like a hyphen, but it’s not....
I read Joel Spolsky’s “Martian Headsets” post a while back, in which he discusses Microsoft’s about-face with regards to Internet Explor...
Would you like your opinion of the Fourth Estate lowered further? Thought it couldn’t get any worse? Suspect that journalists on deadline have less scrupl...
I’m surprised that Cato hasn’t mentioned the stink around the latest memorandum from John Yoo [part 1, part 2]. Perhaps they are as shocked, shocked...
I’ve been running without root access to systems for nigh on two years now, and I must say that it is very annoying, even with sudo in order to start some...
In the movie Elizabeth, Phillip II remarks that he has sacrificed Spain’s forests in order to build his fleet. That’s an interesting remark, and I w...
Perhaps there need to be word limits on legislation. the legislation was a 262-page amendment to a far larger appropriations bill. What Created This MonsterR...