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 & […]
Liberals
I don’t know whether I’m right about any of this. Let’s get that straight right off the bat. But here’s what I’ve been thinking about, and it may be too long to bother editing, so please forgive the typos and unclear language. The more I read history, the more I see that people are similar […]
Israel Thwarted Due to Its Humanity
The BBC reports that Palestinians stopped a planned air strike because protesters surrounded the house that was to be hit (link). The IDF decided not to strike, because it didn’t want to kill all the civilians (or it didn’t want the publicity headache of killing them). It’s unclear (because the article left it unclear) whether […]
Silliest Theory of the Week (Plus Bonus Thoughts!)
Noting that germ-killing products are all the rage, Allen Salkin in the New York Times (link) present us with an example of journalists scrabbling to find an angle to an otherwise boring story. Why are so many people buying (questionably effective) lotions, creams, water ionizers, UV wands, and other weapons of mini destruction? Is it […]