Smaller is a relative term in this case, with Dillons Coffee Roasters having grown to over 1,500 clients since it opened shop in 1992. Despite being on the road, Crema had no shortage of offerings (as you can see in the photo below of the menu). Even so, I wanted to go basic as...
Many years ago, I studied Urban Economics. We were told that HUD spent billions but shrank housing available for the poor. It might be better to finance local communities to rebuild old apartment buildings and turn them into condos for the working poor. It would save us billions and make fo...
“I recall one year [one part of the organization] tried to charge journalists for its popular annual meeting because the section claimed some attendees were trying to ‘sneak’ in for free with journalist’s credentials. The . . . Media Relations department fought it, and the section caved ...
The Supreme Court has sometimes relied upon Congress’s powers over naturalization (the term and conditions in which an alien becomes a U.S. citizen), foreign commerce, and, to a lesser extent, upon the executive branch’s implied Article II foreign affairs power, as sources of federal immigr...
Time for some diverting diversions: The NYC Honorary Street Names Map…Let GrowNYC know what you’re thinking…Perk up your fall bird watching courtesy of Cornell Ornithology…Dag Hammerskjold Parks takes on long-termscaffolding plague…When/if rats come to live in your car…Autumn leaf wisdom ...
and the organizers replied something like “we have a checklist attendees can fill out to mark off what kind of relationship they’re looking for!” And I was half-tempted to reply to that “and is ‘polyamorous’ on that checklist, or…?” because what in the allistic fuck was that ...
Turkey, Thailand, and China itself. In some respects, it can be seen as a slow shift towards what has famously been called the “Beijing consensus,” although I still think the term is inaccurate because it suggests that China’s model can be applied elsewhere. It cannot, but its elements...
If you’re going to throw around a term like “the best hard sf anthology of the year”, and you think it’s a toss-up betweenEdge of Infinityand Baen’sGoing Interstellar, well, you’d be wrong. It’s not about the marquee names on the cover or in the TOC. It’s about the ...
“Nametag Elimination” game. They divided the attendees into two groups. One team put on teal T-shirts and the other one put on Orange ones. I hid the yoga mat cut-outs at the park. After they played a round of soccer. Then they started searching for the cut outs. The game rule ...
This is the organization that encourages convention attendees to applaud when its president lays off 19 employees. This is the organization that allows senior members to prey upon more vulnerable members for the sake of the greater good. We all shit in different buckets, but it stinks just the...