Category: Bits and Pieces

Swimsuit, circa 1900: Swimsuit, circa 2007: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. del.icio.us | digg it

Many of us put a great deal of faith in conventional wisdom, because we assume that it’s a useful distillation of actual facts. If that’s your view, and you draw your conclusions based on CW, rather than on actual facts, you need a reality check and you can get one,

Over at the Watcher of Weasels, where I am a proud council member, the votes are in for best articles of the week, both by council members and non-council members.  It’s with no small amount of pride that I announce that my article, San Francisco has bigger scandals than a

Sweetness and Light reports that the mass murderer in Salt Lake City is Muslim (Bosnian). Could be coincidence; could be connected. I’ll be very interested as new information emerges. UPDATE:  It’s also worth noting that the killing spree ended because someone who wasn’t a homocidal maniac was also carrying a

If you force employers to pay wages higher than their market will bear, they will cut back on employment opportunities. It was intuitively obvious before the new Congress mandated a minimum wage increase, and in Arizona, you can see what happens when mandated wage increases go from theory to fact:

As I understand it, entropy is what happens when energy creating form flags.

I did mention that it’s worth reading all of the posts on which the Watcher of Weasels council votes because, without exception, they’re interesting and informative. Nevertheless, four of them (two written by council members, two written by non-council members) special attention, because they received the highest number of votes.

Normally, I wouldn’t blog about the death of a celebrity, even a young one.

My morning is not going as planned. I’ve gotta run, so I’ll leave you with some reading recommendations. The Watcher’s Council has its nominations up, and you really can’t go wrong reading any of the nominees. Jonah Goldberg ruminates about Biden’s fatal use of the word “articulate” to describe Obama.

Is this the end of civilization as we know it?

I have a mailbox full of emails pointing out interesting articles. Because weekends are heavy-duty family time, making blogging difficult, I don’t have the time to give each of these articles its due. However, I did want to make sure to pass on to you a few wonderful finds. These

I spoke with someone from Bookboy’s school yesterday and learned that things are not as grim as they first appeared. Indeed, the person who got me all a’flutter in the first place may have been exaggerating somewhat. Nevertheless, I view the whole thing as a wake-up call. Bookboy has gotten

I’m bummed today, because I just learned that Bookboy is behaving badly at school.

I thought Molly Ivins was a great writer — when she wrote about Texas.

Apparently we should all be grateful to termites.