She was pretty. Anyway, I was extremely busy the last 7 days. Turned 39 (thank you very much), helped put on my Mom’s catered birthday party (she’s older than 39), celebrated my wife’s 35th birthday party, and today celebrated our anniversary. Oh, and my 91 year old grandmother stayed in our bedroom while we slept […]
Violence (My Personal Biography)
I saw In Bruges last night. I really liked the first 90 minutes. A lot. Then the last 17 were pretty bad. The acting was great, but the plot. No no no. Anyway. This isn’t a movie review. This is personal. I started thinking about the few times in my life that I’ve used physical […]
Airbus A380 Cockpit
See it for yourself. [From aldaily.com’s “Nota Bene” section.]
Why Your Professor Was Liberal
I previously posted about the astounding news that English professors are more likely to be left-leaning than otherwise. There’s been a fair amount of debate and anger about why conservatives are under-represented in academia. Some conservatives have accused universities of unfair hiring practices, while others have suggested that conservative thinkers avoid academia due to an […]
Hot off the Presses: The South was Wrong!
I’ve always thought that the American South had every legal right to withdraw from the Union. There was nothing in the existing Constitution saying that those states who joined couldn’t leave whenever they wanted. After all, it had only been about three score and twelve years between the ratification of the Constitution and the election […]
Surrey with the Bangs on Top
My wife is thinking of changing her hair style. It’s supposedly common among women to do so after breaking up with boyfriends or husbands, so I hope she’s not thinking ahead to something I don’t know about. She wants to get bangs. Only, because she’s Australian, she doesn’t call it bangs, she calls it a […]
Commodum Habitus Es
The page of Latin insults.
No Glove, More Love
Today, the restaurant-worker preparing my lunch (and that of my friend JB) was wearing protective, health-encouraging gloves. This allowed him to touch, squeeze, fold, fondle, and otherwise prepare the food without using his naked hands, or awkward spoons, spatulas, and such. Later, as JB and I shared our nourishing meal, I saw said worker chatting […]
Jewish Nazis
Whoa, got your attention, didn’t I? I recently picked up a copy of my cousin’s European History doctoral dissertation. Two Three hundred pages later, I’m almost finished. I don’t recommend it as a nightstand book, but there’s a lot of really interesting stuff in there. Here’s the latest thing. There were several groups of Jews, […]
Bigfoot
Not TOO long ago, I made my first ever podcast of sorts, about how early (but biologically modern) humans mingled with other hominids. The other hominids ended up dying off, but here we are. Seed magazine (linked to on the right of weeklyrob’s main page) this month has printed a conversation between a couple of […]