It's been a strange couple of weeks here in the United States of ...
That was me last week. It was a doubleheader. Sunday the 20th I flew to Tucson for the "Toward a Science of Consciousness" conference at the university there. (Shouldn"t that be "towards"? Fowler: "Of the prepositions the "s form is the prevailing one, and the other ...
That's six pieces of foolishness occupying just five lines of text out of about 35 lines per page in Justice Sotomayor's dissent; one-seventh of a page out of 58 pages, or about one four-hundredth of the ...
Retired SCOTUS Justice John Paul Stevens wants to amend the U.S. Constitution, I see. The old boy"he's just turned 94"has a book out in which he proposes six amendments. You can read about them at that first link; or hey, buy the book. I want to play this game. True, I don"t have ...
It's one of those weird recursive psychic conditions, like autogynephilia, which I'll leave you to look ...
Standing up for work. So I got a new desk. I"d been reading these news stories about how bad it is for your health to sit all day. The phrase "the sitting disease" has actually been showing up in headlines. Another news story asked: "Is sitting the new ...
In fact only conservatives hate; the left is a hate-free ...
I"ll be speaking to the American Renaissance conference at the end of this month. (What, you haven"t signed up yet? Still time!) Title of talk: "China, America, and the Chinese in America." I should be able to work some topical references into the last part, what with California ...
When I hear the words "major international effort" the thing I hear right after is the sound of money sluicing from the pockets of middle-class taxpayers in prosperous countries " people like me " into the salaries of arrogant globalist bureaucrats and Third World corruption ...
Back in the dear old 1950s, when Western Civilization reached its zenith, Edward R. Murrow ran a regular radio spot titled This I Believe, to which persons both eminent and obscure contributed brief spoken essays on the title topic. You can hear Murrow's original introduction to the series on ...
