Matt Welch, a contributing editor at libertarian magazine Reason, is now assistant editorial page editor at the LATimes. The paper required him to give a urine sample to help keep the LATimes a “drug-free workplace”. Those of you who know anytihng about libertarianism know how funny this is. Yet it’s been company policy for at [...]
More on Hamas
Jan 31, ’06
7:53 AM
Richard Posner’s take jibes with mine (but is much more informed). Christopher Hitchens’ take does not jibe with mine (but is much more informed). Meanwhile, the best thing about this Washington Post opinion piece by Mousa Abu Marzook is the author’s byline: The writer is deputy political bureau chief of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). [...]
The juniper berry has a very deadly kiss
Jan 28, ’06
7:33 PM
In my ongoing mission to find a good gin, I’ve had some ups and downs. Up? Why, Tanqueray No. 10, which was the first premium brand of gin I tried out. It taught me that there is a difference betwen the cheap(ish) stuff and the higher price stuff. Down? Well, maybe I got a bad [...]
Don’t it make my brown eye white?
Jan 28, ’06
8:55 AM
Ass-bleaching. Enjoy, unless you object to graphic content (no pix, just text), in which case you shouldn’t follow that link.
Get Smart
Jan 28, ’06
8:52 AM
I attended the Graduate Institute at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD from 1993-1995. At the end of that period, I was awarded a Master of Arts, Liberal Arts degree (we nicknamed it the evil Spanish woman degree, or M.A.L.A.). During four different job interviews (between 1995 and 1997), the person on the other side [...]
Police County
Jan 27, ’06
2:09 PM
The Fairfax (VA) County police shot an unarmed optometrist to death because he was a bookie. Okay, that’s a little misleading. Here’s a more refined version: Fairfax County police sent a SWAT team to serve a search warrant on an unarmed optometrist, for suspicion of gambling. As the team descended on the optometrist, one member’s [...]
Brotherly Love
Jan 27, ’06
1:57 PM
Read Charles Krauthammer’s column about his brother. It makes me wish I’d sat down and wrote about Chris Penn’s death a few days ago. I thought about it, and brotherhood. I’m a much bigger fan of Michael Penn than I am of Sean Penn, even if Jeff Spicoli is one of the greatest film characters [...]
Hello Hamas, Goodbye Fatah, Here I am in Camp Grenade(a)
Jan 27, ’06
12:57 PM
Yesterday, the Palestinian populace had parliamentary elections, and the Hamas party won a ton of seats. The NYPost cover today screams, “HAMASTAN,” and predicts a Taliban-like state of religious oppression will take over the Palestinian territories. I don’t think that’s going to happen, mainly because I don’t think the vote was an overwhelming endorsement of [...]
20 years gone
Jan 27, ’06
7:43 AM
Tomorrow’s the 20th anniversary of the crash of the space shuttle Challenger. Here’s a piece on myths about the disaster.
Upgrading
Jan 26, ’06
4:14 PM
This is all geek-talk, so feel free to go onto the next item. I’ve updated a bunch of computer-stuff in the past week. First, I decided to double the amount of RAM in my desktop iMac to 2gb. The immediate upshot of this is that I can boot Photoshop in about 3.5 seconds. Quark, of [...]
