Lawns: Do you still have one?
My good friend Bonnie (who has since moved to France where she doesn’t have a lawn to kill) had this on her bumper for years. She transformed her front yard and as soon as you got out of your car,…
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
Pat H
TSA today, yesterday and four years ago
Here’s what the TSA’s website tells us they found in the week between April 20th and 26th, 2012: Firearms:Â 31 -Â 29Â loaded;Â 2Â unloaded 1Â artfully concealed prohibited item found at checkpoints Among the items displayed on the TSA Blog are a plastic dagger found…
The horse race: Obama v Romney
James Fallows over at the Atlantic (yes, him again) had a recent post about Samuel Popkin‘s just-published book, “The Candidate: What It Takes to Win – and Hold – the White House”. Dr Popkin has consented to “several rounds of online…
You say you like puzzles?
If you’re up for a real challenge, the 1940 US Census Community Project has millions of them for you. On April 2nd, the National Archives released the 3.8 million digitized pages of the sixteenth census of the United States, after the…
Don’t forget the TSA!
I guess more of our air travelers must have been feeling threatened during the period between April 13th and 19th, 2012, because there were a lot more loaded guns found, according to the TSA‘s weekly accounting. Firearms:Â 30-Â 26Â loaded;Â 4Â unloaded 3Â artfully concealed prohibited…
“Bad things happened…”
“…and then everyone was happy and went to the seashore,” That’s how Melina Mercouri’s character Illya always ended the ancient Greek tragedies she retold in Never on Sunday. One of our own great national tragedies is chattel slavery, based on race. (The other is…