Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Sometimes it is hard to tell who is on which side.

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The Miami New Time s has a story today about Adam Finkel, a 26-year-old assistant state attorney in Florida. Mr. Finkel allegedly got into ...
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Monday, July 29, 2013

The standing desk is passé.

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In Douglas Coupland's Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture , he describes the cubicles in the one character's office as ...
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Friday, July 26, 2013

Knucklehead, victim, or both?

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Let's close out the week by hearing what Aaron Rodgers thinks about Ryan Braun now. Our previous coverage of Mr. Rodgers and Mr. Braun c...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Faulkner's heirs sue Woody Allen for copyright infringement

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And lose . This is a pretty good example of the craziness of our copyright laws. William Faulkner has been dead for over fifty years. Wood...

Did Aaron Rodgers just lose a year's salary?

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As Mr. Gillette points out , Green Bay QB Aaron Rodgers was a strong defender of Brewers' left fielder Ryan Braun when he was accused of...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Mot Juste?

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With the ne ws that Milwaukee Brewers' slugger Ryan Braun is being suspended for the remainder of the baseball season, it might not hur...
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Friday, July 19, 2013

Weather Myths

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Some of you may have noticed that in the United States weather patterns tend to move from the west to the east. If you tell me it's real...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Rankings in the bottom half are good, right?

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has sponsored a study of people's health in the United States by county . Jason Sadowski at Slate dis...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

A different time

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The July 12 episode of the Planet Money Podcast  presents what it calls a one-page plan to fix global warming. Basically, it describes how a...

"Traveling from place to place, esp. working or based in various places for relatively short periods."

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When the headline to a review  of a play includes the word " peripatetic ," the critic is not doing a good job of telling your rea...
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