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After chants of “Drill, baby, drill” at the Republican National Convention, a Democratic Congress has changed their attitudes on offshore drilling. From the New York Times: ‘Even more...
The writer’s life hasn’t changed much. Move to the big city, live in a tiny apartment, and get dragged down by all the distractions and frustrations that accompany this process. When I moved...
For a unique window into what we go through in the publishing industry, even as book review sections and reviewers are slashed left and right, The Guardian’s Book Blog: There are many zany tactics...
Trading a kidney for tickets to see Obama at the DNC. On Craigslist. Good deal? Trustworthy? I’m not sure, but at least they picked a very well rendered, accurate picture of a kidney, courtesy of...
A pregnant daughter, a state trooper firing, and the "bridge to nowhere" which she may or may not have supported (I'm not sure how that one goes). Sarah Palin has shrugged off scandals that would threaten to bring other politicians a lot of grief.
Update: This is last week’s puzzle, click here for this week’s puzzle! It’s that time again! I’ve got another problem from Martin Gardner’s Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma...
For the most part, they’re nonprofits. So can universities demonstrate their benefit to society? A New York Times article yesterday reported on a meeting between university presidents and two members...
September 8, 2008 Wow, lots of good video lately. Earlier, we had one of our authors on CNN, questing for the real Ithaca. Now, After Bush author Tim Lynch has appeared on C-SPAN‘s Afterwords. He...
The Odysseus Unbound saga continues Where is the Ithaca of Homer, home to Odysseus? This has been a point of contention, since today’s Ithaki bears little resemblance to Homer’s description...
September 5, 2008 What do you pack for a journey around the world? Well, if the year is 1831, guns. Lots of them. Charles Darwin wrote his sister Susan 177 years ago tomorrow with a packing list for the...
Salman Rushdie. Noam Chomsky. That guy from “Stuff White People Like.” And now Future Imperfect author David Friedman has journeyed to Mountain View, California to appear on Authors@Google. It’s...
Thank you, CBS News. On their Political Animal blog, find the whole run-down of contradictions in last night's speech.
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