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Freedom to Lie
Ok, first of all, alert readers may notice that it’s been more than a week since my last post. I’ve been house-sitting, away from my computer, and sick with a cold. As you can see, I subscribe to the shotgun approach to excuses, but coincidentally, they all happen to be true. Onwards: David Duke made […]
What’s in a Name?
What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet. So I got my Shakespeare, as mentioned in an earlier post. I […]
Cheap Shakespeare
I’m not a true Shakespeare guy. I like a lot of individual bits and pieces within his plays, and I love how bawdy he gets at times. He can be really funny, and he sometimes says beautiful things. But I haven’t read all his stuff, and I have no interest in doing so. It’s an […]
E-Books
It doesn’t look as though it’ll revolutionize anything, but Sony is at least giving at a go (link). The last thing I want is a crappy screen with crappy font that’s hard to read. If you go to the “Easy Reading†section, then hover over “Revolutionary Display,†you find that the text looks pretty nice. […]
Short People
A quick little article by a pseudonymous guy who says that heightening has changed his life (link). By adding 4 inch heels, he went from 5’5’ to 5’9†and suddenly scored a bunch of ladies. [Though he does recognize that the confidence boost has done a lot of the work that the heels may not […]
Roughing It
I’m reading Mark Twain’s Roughing It (link), a disjointed account of his time spent getting to, and living in, the Territory of Nevada. At least, I guess that’s what it’s about. I’m only about a third of the way through the thing and it’s hard to know. Though it was written as a sort of […]
Travel
I wasn’t planning to use this blog to talk about myself, really. I was planning to use it to talk about ideas and fun stuff and terrible stuff and other stuff. You know. Stuff. But I’ll make this a sort of exception. I’ve just more or less stumbled on the Web site of a guy […]
So Sue Me
In an earlier post, I wondered whether I could get sued for libelous comments that other people leave on my site. Apparently, in most states, I can’t. And now the California Supreme Court has joined the majority (link). Interestingly, this is all spelled out (so they say) in the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which was […]
Libertarian Paternalism
Princeton’s “University Channel†(link on left of main page) provides all kinds of interesting, and free, lectures, round-table discussions, and other events, featuring the top thinkers in a broad array of fields. Big names and big brains. Each item is about an hour long, and sometimes the sound isn’t that great for the Q & […]