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…
My wife recently read a book outlining a decent spiritual/mental model to help one to deal with the ins and outs of daily life. The model goes as follows: Either the night prior to or the morning of a day…
It’s fortunate that Congress disbanded HUAC, else I might have had to place a call this evening. You see, I witnessed my family watching two former European Axis powers competing against each other. Playing metric footballsoccer. On the Fourth of…
To my mind, it just doesn’t get any better than Ray Charles singing “America the Beautiful”. So get your official 4th of July celebrations off on the right foot and give Sir Charles a listen.
