We PA residents have been following the Rick Santorum vs. Bob Casey, Jr. [Hey, wasn’t his father famous or something? -ed.] Senate race fairly closely, with most polls showing Casey in the lead. Regardless of his lead, though, I don’t…
P.J. O’Rourke has put his finger on what is wrong with America. It’s quite simple, actually: it involves canvas deck chairs, yuppies and John Edwards. Heh.
Prompted by a conversation that I had with a few of Andy II‘s college buddies, I’ve observed the following: Unless one puts a concerted effort into doing so, it is well-nigh impossible to call a friend or acquaintance something other…
Parker Brothers is reportedly set to release an updated version of their venerable Monopoly board game featuring Visa-branded debit cards in lieu of the stacks of funny-colored money traditionalists are used to. I kid you not. I guess there’s only…
I cannot see the logic that would motivate Israel to concede to allowing U.N. blue hats on the Lebanese border as a sufficient resolution to the current crisis, and so I can only view Anan and Blair’s “plan” as global…
I’ve seen all manner of stupid “gamer” peripherals for the PC, from mini-keypads designed to give gamers WASD and not much else to 3 dimensional mice to “physics accelerators”. I thought it couldn’t get any worse; I was wrong. Via…
May you live in interesting times. –Supposed ancient Chinese curse “Watching” the events in Lebanon unfold on the newswires, I ran through an extremely odd combination of feelings at work today. I felt detached, almost entirely removed from the world…
Aron and I have been discussing some simple reforms that would go a long way towards reducing graft, corruption and complacency in Congress. While by no means complete, we think that they could help the average American citizen greatly by…
Back in my day, we did this using regular drag-behind “banana”-style tubes, then walked 10 miles uphill to school. With no shoes. In the snow. Still, that looks like an awful lot of fun. Also, lawsuiteriffic.
The Jerusalem Post has two riveting accounts of Operation Entebbe posted commemorating the 30th anniversary of the IDF’s raid on Uganda’s Entebbe Airport: one from the soldiers’ point of view, the other from the hostages’. If you’ve never read the…
