The Stopped Clock

It is interesting to read that the U.S. government feels the need to get vast amounts of data from Google and other search engines, in orde...

Have you heard about what's happening with the Detroit Zoo ?

George Will's column today invites all sorts of snarky retorts. Conservatives, he claims on the basis of a self-reporting survey, are h...

Last week on "Real Time with Bill Maher", Iraq advisor Dan Senor defended the disappearance of billions of dollars in the early m...

... And one you have probably never heard at all. Google is excited to announce the appointment of Larry Brilliant as executive director of ...

I mean, beyond blogs. Google Page Creator . (Via SitePoint blogs ).

I never bought into the Segway hype , but the inventor's more recent innovations seem to have a lot of potential. Dean Kamen, the engin...

Well, perhaps not always .... Libya's parliamentary secretariat today suspended the interior minister and referred him for investigation...

Two news stories which, but for the choices of the Bush Administration, wouldn't be in the news.... Dick Cheney shoots his friend. Why ...

Majikthise says it better than most. (H.T., Explananda )

One of the biggest problems of the manner in which many businesses offer what presently passes for "customer service" is that ther...

Sebastian Mallaby has a "What, Me Worry?"-type editorial in today's Post, complaining that our nation doesn't really have...

Behind the New York Times firewall, in " Remaking the Epic of America ", David "Babbling" Brooks shares the insight he e...

In " Seven Years for a Pound of Butter ", the London Guardian provides examples of criminal sentences from 1825. Imprisoned Four M...

The New York Times has noticed that not everything offered for sale on eBay is genuine . They observe in relation to buyer and seller feedba...

Apparently there actually is a person who reads Maureen Dowd's columns while somehow missing her often over-the-top use of sarcasm, iron...

Of all people, Michelle Malkin complains that celebrities aren't rallying to her cause du jour, the question of whether the state of Ma...

I spoke with a lawyer today who is having a problem with the Michigan Attorney Grievance Commission . It isn't that he has done anything...

When we complain of a lack of leadership in government, are we wishing for a leader who takes a "my way or the highway" approach, ...

Polygon, the Dancing Bear compares lawyering to wizardry (J.K. Rowling-style).