The last couple of days the census has been in the news. I wrote about my suspicions regarding the timing of the census changes and the figures about health insurance enrollment under Obamacare here. I also recommend Ace’s piece about … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is an edited version of an essay of mine from the past.] Today is April 15th. Ah, paying taxes. What fun! Along with close to 100% of Americans, I hate the process. It’s an attitude that unites us … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →I suppose many of you more tech-savvy than I am (which would probably include about 98% of you) already know about the Heartbleed encrypting bug. I’ve read a lot of conflicting information about whether to change your passwords in order … Continue reading →
…it seems we’re about where we began: If you look at the chart, you’ll see that, so far, worry about global warming peaked around 2000 and again in the years 2006-2008. I’m not sure what was happening in 2000 (Al … Continue reading →
It will only make things worse. And they’re likely to get mad at you in the process. I’ll bet all you non-worriers have done it to the worriers in your life: told them the equivalent of “Just stop it. It … Continue reading →
…whether to consider this skydiver lucky or unlucky. But I do know that what happened to him was so unusual as to seem virtually impossible. And yet it happened:
Continue reading →Taken for a 1952 photo essay in Life, this picture was one of a series that never got published in the original article:
Continue reading →I’m told that todays’s Charles Koch opinion piece in the WSJ is good, but I can’t seem to get behind the WSJ firewall. The usual tricks to do so aren’t working, so I’ll link to this excerpt, and leave it … Continue reading →
…but I think it’s charming:
Continue reading →I was on an airplane recently that was completely full—as almost all airplanes I ride seem to be these days. I was seated on the aisle next to two female college students who were clearly friends of each other. Maybe … Continue reading →
…separated at birth, there’s this, sent in by a helpful reader. On the upper right is an earlier photo of O’Toole, photoshopped to have brown eyes instead of blue, and on the lower right is the same photo, with Sebelius’s … Continue reading →