Gerard Van der Lune — one of the best writers in the Blogosphere — does a Saturday stroll through Seattle’s University District: Saturday was an especially good day for seeing the University District as it really is. It was Street-Fair Saturday and, as I remarked to my friend after strolling a couple of blocks, the […]
Jeffrey Denning is a former TSA air marshal who has been serving in Iraq with the US Army Reserve. He just returned home only to face immediately a TSA investigation into an e-mail he received and forward asking “current and former air marshals to talk to CNN”: My wife and I had an interesting conversation […]
OK, so here’s the latest kerfuffle over the Democratic National Convention due here in Denver in a few months: Fried foods are forbidden at the committee’s 22 or so events, as is liquid served in individual plastic containers. Plates must be reusable, like china, recyclable or compostable. The food should be local, organic or both. […]
Having lived in the Washington DC area for a total of nearly 8 years (and in the District itself for six of those years), I was a big fan and user of the Metro, their subway systems. However, the Metro was was always struggling with funding and maintenance issues, which puzzled me a bit since […]
It’s May Day, nearly halfway through spring, almost halfway to summer. As I type this, snow is falling outside and has been for an hour or so; it’s actually sticking on the ground (we have at least 1/2″ already). And it’s supposed to fall through the day and into the evening. The current temperature (it’s […]
Obviously inspired by SciFi’s Battlestar Galactica three-seaons-in-eight-minutes video, Slate has put together this video summarizing the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in seven minutes: Hat tip to Ann Althouse. ..bruce w..
I am a great fan of Jonah Goldberg’s book, Liberal Fascism, for its willingness to go back and actually look at the historical rise of fascism (and Fascism) in the 20th Century, in our own country (under Woodrow Wilson), in Italy (under Mussolini), in Germany (under Hitler), and in Russia (under Stalin). Indeed, I consider […]
OK, given the apocalyptic hype over global warming climate change climate fluctuations, this is downright funny: Lloyd’s of London warned yesterday that an absence last year of natural disasters or man-made accidents was putting pressure on firms to reduce premiums in 2008. The world’s oldest and biggest insurance market said that though the lack of […]
This short AP article in the DC Examiner says it better than anything else (emphasis mine): WASHINGTON (Map, News) – Census figures show D.C.’s public schools spend more than $13,000 per student. That’s the third-highest figure in the nation when compared among states. A report released Tuesday shows that on average, school districts nationwide spent […]
Liveblogging the DNC Rules & Bylaws Cmte meeting
[break for lunch — them, not me — will reconvene at 4:15 EDT, 2:15 MDT] Wow. This has been great fun, and the discussion and debate for the most part has been pointed, intelligent, and sharp (with exception to the occasional lame references to the Florida 2000 election). I’m going to be gone for a […]
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