A complete list of aphorisms from the 44(!) “Charlie Chan” movies. Note that those 44 movies were made in a period of less than 20 years, averaging slightly more than 2 movies per year. And you thought Star Trek was bad…. Hat tip to Language Log (one of my favorite blogs, by the way). ..bruce..
By spreading truly subversive and crippling concepts — via Finland. Hat tip to Sharpeworld via The Consumerist. Â ..bruce..
Peter Schramm, Professor of Politicial Science at Ashland University, tells of his long journey from being born in Communist-occupied Hungary to ultimately “teaching…native-born Americans…how to think about their own country.” He ends as follows: But what I do with these American natives is I teach them about American politics and American history. I start with […]
Gerry Weinberg, who has been a leading light in software engineering for nearly 40 years, once famously remarked, “If builders build buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.” Up in Boston, it appears that the woodpeckers have struck, with tragic results. The Big Dig, as it […]
Jay Cost over at Real Clear Politics does the best job I’ve seen anywhere of explaining the current dispute between Howard Dean (chairman of the Democratic National Committee) and Rahm Emanuel (chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee). The short version is obvious: Dean is trying to build up the Democratic Party on a local […]
Sandra and I are thinking about getting a new house. The folks at Chocolate Cake City (who did the Brokeback to the Future trailer) have a new one: X-Men: The Last Standing Ovation. Ah, the wonders of Photoshop (though having a twisted mind helps).
I am of an age (53) to remember when travel in the United States primarily involved roads that had, at most, two lanes in each direction (and that only if you were lucky). Interestingly enough, once you get out of major urban areas, it still does. Long cross-country stretches of the US Interstate Highway system […]
From the Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch: Frederic Arthur (Fred) Clark, who had tired of reading obituaries noting other’s courageous battles with this or that disease, wanted it known that he lost his battle as a result of an automobile accident on June 18, 2006. True to Fred’s personal style, his final hours were spent joking with […]
This article in the New York Times notes that the Library of America has given Cole Porter his own volume in their American Poets series. Porter is my all-time favorite songwriter and possibly the best songwriter America has ever produced or likely ever will — I have a hard time seeing someone else turn out […]
Press bias and multiple sources
FURTHER UPDATE (7/14/06): This could explain a lot. UPDATE (7/13/06): Having written this post yesterday, I ran across these three pieces today: Who’s determing editorial policy at the New York Times (Jed Babbin at Real Clear Politics) Why the New York Times should not have printed its article about SWIFT (Jacob Weisberg — certainly no […]
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