Light blogging today
I’m at an all-day (and part of the night) family celebration, so blogging will be light today. But feel free to talk amongst yourselves.
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Korea heating up
In the flurry of all the current domestic news, and the crisis involving the economies of Europe, it’s easy to ignore the mess going on between the two Koreas. But we shouldn’t. The North’s attack on the South’s warship Cheonan … Continue reading →
New England’s best ice cream
I’ve written before about New England’s love affair with ice cream. And now that the weather here is unseasonably but wonderfully warm—summer seems to have arrived, and it’s only May!—the Boston Globe has published this guide to New England’s best. … Continue reading →
Reports of Mark Twain’s death…
…are not an exaggeration: his autobiography is finally being published, 100 years after the author’s demise. [NOTE: For those who don’t get the reference, see this.]
Continue reading →The continuing saga of Al Megrahi
Remember our friend the Lockerbie bomber, Al Megrahi? The one who got a “get out of jail free” card back in August of 2009 because he only had three months to live, max? Well, it’s nine months later and Al … Continue reading →
Will SCOTUS overturn HCR?
If Meghan McArdle’s projections are correct, you better hope not. Maybe it would be better to defund it if possible in 2011, get some intelligent stopgap (is that an oxymoron?) measure in there, and then repeal the earlier bill in … Continue reading →
Is the Gulf oil slick seeping towards the White House?
That’s the question. And the answer given here is “Maybe. A little bit, anyway:” …[Coast Guard commander] Allen has repeatedly pointed out that it is BP, not the federal government, that has all the equipment and expertise to deal with … Continue reading →
The welfare state’s dirty little secret is out
And it’s simple: with low birth rates, the young end up working to support the old, and then the state is likely to run out of money before their time comes to benefit. It’s starting to happen all over the … Continue reading →
Did you know…
…that Jan Brewer’s maiden name was Drinkwine? Wouldn’t it have been great if she’d hypenated it when she got married?
Continue reading →The White House stonewalls on Sestak…
…because it knows it can. I don’t know if there might be any fire behind the mild amount of smoke generated so far by Sestak’s allegations that he was offered a job by the Obama administration in exchange for not … Continue reading →
I’m saying no to natto
I like food, and I like foreign food especially. But I must confess (shhh!) that Japanese food is not one of my favorite cuisines. Don’t get me wrong: I eat it and enjoy it. But it’s way down on my … Continue reading →
Obama, Daniel Pearl, and freedom of the press
It seems like a long, long, time ago that Daniel Pearl was kidnapped, held hostage, and then beheaded by jihadists in early 2002. At the time, it was a profoundly shocking event, and part of the horror was the fact … Continue reading →