I’d like to say at the outset that I like fruits and vegetables. Even if they weren’t supposed to be good for you I would eat them. I might even eat them if I heard they were a little bit … Continue reading →
Yes indeed, that’ll fix it, according to French economist Thomas Piketty: Piketty’s terror at rising inequality is an important data point for the reader. It has perhaps influenced his judgment and his tendentious reading of his own evidence. It could … Continue reading →
Can’t wait to hear the rest: In my opinion, a more sound approach to the problem of pigs But does the bot mean the problem faced by pigs, or the problem caused by pigs?
Continue reading →I know, I know; the actress in the first photo is a bit older than the actress in the second. But still…
Continue reading →Here’s an interesting poll on the subject: Over the past decade, Americans have clustered into three broad groups on global warming. The largest, currently describing 39% of U.S. adults, are what can be termed “Concerned Believers” — those who attribute … Continue reading →
According to Peter Burrows at Business Week, Stanford law professor Joseph Grundfest remarked, when Brenan Eich was forced to resign as CEO of Mozilla, “This is a particularly fascinating situation, because it involves an illiberal reaction from a very liberal … Continue reading →
SCOTUS has ruled 6-2 (Kagan abstaining) that Michigan’s law against race-based affirmative action is constitutional. In other words, it’s not racial discrimination to ban the sort of racial discrimination that is supposedly designed for the purpose of redressing racial discrimination. … Continue reading →
From the Nadezhda Mandelstam chapter of Clive James’ excellent Cultural Amnesia [in the following excerpts I have Americanized the British spelling): The main difference [between the Gulag and Hitler’s Reich] was that in Nazi Europe the victims knew…who they were, … Continue reading →
…do something about this? It seems a lot more imminent than global warming. Plus, it’s supposedly a relatively simple and not-too-expensive fix.
Continue reading →Bob Shrum is going for his ninth presidential campaign loss. The first eight were in his capacity as Democratic political consultant. The ninth will be as unofficial advisor to the GOP in 2016. This long-term partisan and dedicated Democrat is … Continue reading →
Nothing much happens to me when I get hungry except that I get hungry. But some people are different: they get angry and pick fights. Indeed. I know that quite well because I’ve been closely and even at times intimately … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is a repost from Easters past. But it still works for me.] Happy Easter to all my celebratory Christian readers, and to all those who just enjoy the holiday as well! One year when my son was little, … Continue reading →