How do your decisions rate on your regret index? High on mine, for the time being, is moving to a neighborhood whose community pool closes at 7 p.m. Addendum: Having just used whose inanimate, I recalled a draft post that was never published (originally inspired by Tony Snow's seemingly excessive use of "of which" in [...]
Three brief things: Caught on tape taking a $100,000 bribe? Give up and resign, idiot. Al Gore: run! The government (and now the big telecommunications companies) are relying more and more heavily on an absolute "state secrets privilege" to get civil cases thrown out of court. Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive at [...]
Kevin Drum says: I'm a little late on this, but let me join the bandwagon of mockery directed at members of Congress who have finally decided that the executive branch has overstepped its congressional boundaries. After six years of signing statements, domestic surveillance, habeus corpus violations, torture of prisoners, and secret overseas prisons — all [...]
It was only overcast for about twenty minutes, but those were the twenty minutes I spent wandering around Home Depot trying to decide which flowers might look nice in front of the house. Sandwiched at eye level between gray skies and concrete floors, they all looked like they were dying. I was hungry and very [...]
The ads on the right appeared in Gmail next to an email I just received. 19 billion is an awfully large number of songs for retailers called "MyMusicInc.com" and "AllCoolMusic.com" to have on hand. Unbelievably large, actually. According to the New York Times, even the comparatively inventory-free "My-Free-Music.com" seems (at 99 million songs) to offer [...]