The Stopped Clock

Apparently so.... The inspiration for my last comment was a blog post in which the author explained why he didn't speak out on the subje...

Sometimes I wonder if I should join the majority of Americans who tune out politics - my cousin’s recipe for peace of mind . I know I blog f...

I will guarantee you that the new supermax prison in Guantanamo Bay has none of these problems . Hey - I know what will fix it! A new coat ...

The New York Times criticizes Bush on immigration : Once upon a time, Mr. Bush was a sense-talking governor from a border state who understo...

John Tierney proposes that we legalize heroin and cocaine : Drug prohibition in Bolivia and Afghanistan has done exactly what alcohol prohib...

The Democratic Party is frequently criticized, often from within, about its inability to forge a clear agenda, or to articulate a platform w...

If this doesn't convert you to Christianity, perhaps nothing will: "What being born-again means for me," he explains, "i...

Somebody commented that I was being unfair to David Brooks in my last post, because at least Brooks is tossing out some ideas. I think that ...

When I read the headline to the latest Brooks piece, Investing in Human Futures , I half expected to read something about a futures market f...

I stumbled across a site I hadn't seen for a few years the other day, LegalMatch, and for no good reason it occurred to me that there we...

I've been informed by a couple of people that they have received letters, postmarked in Spain, which they believed to be associated with...

Mike at Crime and Federalism recently wrote of spam email he received from a lawyer soliciting his membership in a referral network of some...

When one of the punditocracy's greatest living examples of the Peter Principle propounds the glories of meritocracy , it's probably ...

How's this for an inquiry : I had a car accident last year (April 2005). Another car crashed into the driver's side rear of my car. ...

Please speak slowly and use small words. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) was on Real Time with Bill Maher, advocating a VAT (a significant nationa...

Have you heard about the psychologist who is suing Google because it kicked her out of the AdSense program after she clicked on ads in viol...

Let's say you are insured through one health insurance company, but for one reason or another (a change of employer; a decision to chang...

Sebastian Mallaby again leaps to the defense of Wal-Mart, castigating Democrats who he claims are aligned with anti-Wal-Mart movements. I h...

David Brooks, self-professed high school nerd, is snickering at people who have tattoos : And that’s the most delightful thing about the who...

I know not all publishers are happy with Google's plan to digitize books, but... Rather than compiling a list of her company's 1,200...