Monthly Archives: January 2007

Remember this (circa 2002)? EDIT: also, there’s a fansite that was updated just last month.

Thank god we have a democratic congress to protect our civil liberties. What’s next, Senator Schumer? Oh — a biometric employment card and a non-voluntary employment eligibility database, . . . . (PS — biometrics doesn’t magically stop employers from … Continue reading →

The Egyptian government is embarrassing itself over a new international publicity stunt called the “New 7 Wonders of the World.” They don’t think the pyramids should have to win a contest to be a Wonder.

Scandalous allegation by “the woman of Sean Connery (the british lord).” Here’s the proof.

I don’t usually like Judith Warner (Times online columnist) but she’s got an interesting post that goes behind the poll numbers that seem to suggest about 90% of Americans would vote for a “qualified woman candidate” for President. Some interesting … Continue reading →

Advantage: low administrative costs Disadvantage: helps rich people most

If there existed the universal mind, that projected itself into the scientific fancy of Laplace; a mind that would register simultaneously all the processes of nature and of society, that could measure the dynamics of their motion, that could forecast … Continue reading →

If there existed the universal mind, that projected itself into the scientific fancy of Laplace; a mind that would register simultaneously all the processes of nature and of society, that could measure the dynamics of their motion, that could forecast … Continue reading →

Lightning, flood, tornados and estranged wives will always be with us, in this vale of tears. They were the occasion of human injury when our forebears were tilling the soil with sharp sticks. They are not a by-product of the … Continue reading →

but legal writers — judges, law review authors, casebook writers — get them wrong staggeringly often, maybe more often than they get ‘em right.