Working from home today with the television on (a luxury/curse I don’t have in my cubicle), I caught this story on Headline News: Perky is one tough bird. The ring-neck duck survived being shot and spending two days in a hunter’s refrigerator — and now she’s had a close brush with death on a veterinarian’s [...]
This is a chart of natural-gas costs in my house for the same seven-month period in two consecutive years. You’ll notice that we’re paying about 40 percent less for heat this winter than we paid last winter. Al Gore can work himself and his hippie friends into a craze if that’s what he wants; me, [...]
As everyone knows, it’s perfectly stupid to bet on an outcome whose chance of occurring is 146,107,962 to 1 against. But surely the calculus changes when the prize is 155 million times the price of the wager, right? Powerball this Saturday, you guys.
The President of the United States has an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal (available to paying subscribers only). He doesn’t say anything new, policy-wise, but here are the two paragraphs that stood out to me: Our priorities begin with defeating the terrorists who killed thousands of innocent Americans on September 11, 2001 — and [...]
Richard Cohen has successfully snuck another of his oblivious, hypocritical, self-incriminating columns past the editors at the Washington Post. Today’s bit of outrageousness starts as a reasonable-sounding denunciation of the media’s unfair, sexist treatment of Monica Lewinsky (who recently reemerged in the news because of her successful completion of a master’s program at the London [...]