Eventually I made the other side of my hamburger and even joined the pieces by spreading some print ink on the two halves, throwing them back into the print shop and hitting the UV light. Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable Using the Formula 40 strip, you can make your ...
If 51 percent of Americans decided, at a referendum, to vote against the First or Fourth or Fifth Amendments as put on a ballot, would those pieces of the Bill of Rights be subject to recall? This is the point at which half-baked populist screeds offer us no actual hope for self-gove...
If you read my blog you know that I try to post smooth, polished pieces. I try to produce something coherent, even conclusive. This one’s different: a bunch of notes that I recently found in a forgotten file from five years ago. The notes pose questions that intrigue and trouble me a...
Frances Haugen, the (hopefully first of many) Facebook whistleblower, made one thing abundantly clear this week in both her�60 Minutes interview�and her�Senate Hearing: The United States needs a specialized agency to oversee digital platforms. Antitrust enforcement alone is not...
And speaking of the more than a bit weird, the US magazine Esquire published a short opinion piece that led to a long list of complaints: The first half of a beer is why we drink beer. The second half is an afterthought at best, backwash at worst. If you were to watch all the bee...
No, even as a good Scots Presbyterian I regularly look to learn more and more from wine writers including from Jancis Robinson’s books and opinion pieces. And this review posted at her website of an unexpected restaurant experience really struck me as a warm and thoughtful bit of review ...
Republican chief justice for the 14th Court of Appeals, Tracy Christopher, wrote in an opinion that while some residents may have been prevented from voting, Daniels’ attorneys did not provide sufficient evidence to prove he would have won the election had they been able to cast ballots. “...
When NYT bought the game, they too went through and further eliminated words they thought people would find too challenging as well, like "agora", asKnight told TODAY. Basically, to the average Wordle player, whether or not a word is "too obscure" comes down to your own personal vocabulary...
It is an opinion piece so must naturally invite response. So I shall. First, however, a couple of weeks ago, I shared (or at least I hope I shared) my thoughts that the conspiracy theory about the lazy use of the “guy drinks beer from pint glass” is a bit much. It’s like th...
Well, probably best to not write and opinion column in you’re not interested in opinions. It can’t all be about hiding out, being the shadowy figure. Being negative can always be a positive. Like in this startling review of southwest Scotland as a travel destination: You feel it’s ...