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god’s left hand wasn’t made to get by

Glenn Greenwald: At this point, I didn’t believe it was possible, but the Obama administration has just reached an all-new low in its abysmal civil liberties record. In response to the lawsuit filed by Anwar Awlaki’s father asking a court to enjoin the President from assassinating his son, a U.S. citizen, without any due process, [...]

now watergate does not bother me

Like all humans, I rely on certain rituals to anchor my week. My current seudah shlishit: getting a cheddar and swiss hot dog from Spike’s, plus fries and a Diet Pepsi, and eating it at home while watching something on Hulu. I prefer Burn Notice while it’s in season, but will fall back on another [...]

from the beretta, puttin all the holes in your sweater

Spent the weekend on the Long Island Sound (the CT side) with Sylvia and a posse of her friends. Kristen, whose family owns the house, collects a huge variety of novelty toys. Things like electronic fart simulators, confetti guns, squeezable talking plush dolls, etc. And the American Idol Sonic Mace. I didn’t recognize it as [...]

she says that I’m a mess, but it’s all right

(Part three of my series on dating. Part two: on why you have to be yourself) Last week’s post was about why you need to have good self-esteem if you want romantic success. If you don’t love yourself, nobody else will. However, since I delivered it as an anecdote about a guy asking for dating [...]

macheteconomics

New post on Overthinking It, examining Machete through the lens of public choice theory and anarchist philosophy: a State is that agency which (1) has a monopoly on force in a given area and (2) upholds the claim that this monopoly is legitimate. In Texas as depicted in Machete, no agency has a monopoly on [...]

no more pencils, no more books

The following problem kept me up about an hour past my bedtime on Sunday. I didn’t read it anywhere (that I recall); it came to me as a thought experiment. I’m stumped, so I’m crowdsourcing the solution. POSIT: A math professor comes home one day to find that his 8-year-old son knocked over the bookcase [...]

the man at the back has a question

The Real Inspector Hound: an entertaining little production of a Tom Stoppard classic. The play begins as an oddly mediocre British murder mystery, which the audience watches along with two theater critics. However, by the second act it becomes clear that the traditional delineation between play and audience is being broken – at least for [...]

beginning with a look and then a smile

(Part two of my series on dating. Part one: my dating advice to teenagers) Years ago, I witnessed an Internet argument (on Livejournal, natch) between several benevolent females and one frustrated guy. The frustrated guy had voiced some of the common complaints about women: it’s easier for them because they get to be choosers; they [...]

home is the place I want to be, but I guess I’m already there

Every fall, the Hancock Tower starts bringing in live musicians to play during the afternoon. It’s someone with an electric keyboard, or a flautist, or a string quartet once we approach the Christmas season. It adds a touch of culture, the kind you’d get in a suburban mall or a clean hotel, to an otherwise [...]

but you see I’m on a losing streak?

Last time I talked about Mad Men, I predicted that “[t]his season should mark Don becoming less relevant and Peggy and Pete moreso. They’re the face of the ‘youth culture’ that’s going to become more important as the Sixties roll on.” Well, the last few episodes (Ep5 through Ep8) have not been about youth culture. [...]

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