Your decisions are not your own Our gut instinct, our experience, is that we make the decisions to move, to think, to eat, to steal, to lie, to punch and kick. We […]
Lazy Sunday links
As I try to track down the RSS problem, here’s some things to read… * Longtime reader Bernie Cullen recommends this analysis over at Pielke Jr’s place on those Australian fires. * […]
The sad decline of music: Billy Strayhorn vs. Drake
Inarguably, hip hop (rap) is one of the leading pop music genres; at least, it is one of the loudest. I did not know which hip hop singer to choose (I do […]
Did a psychic solve the Tabitha Horn murder case?
This was an investigation that I did a long time ago, but I never properly wrote up. I was inspired to finally do so by reading Joe Nickell’s similar sleuthing of the […]
The Tree Museum — by Kathleen Kaufman
The Tree Museum Kathleen Kaufman Recommendation: don’t read I have a fantasy about how humanity will be perfected when I am put in charge. Not installed bureaucratically, you understand, but as one […]
I should be happier
According to CareerCast.com and the Wall Street Journal, I should be one happy guy. This is because Career Cast has done a “study” to rate the best jobs, and mine is right […]
What’s killing newspapers?
News. News is what is killing papers. Not “news” as in something you want and need to read, but “news” as in something reporters once liked and wanted to write about. Nearly […]
Can You Read My Mind?
Ghosts, ESP, telekinesis, astrology, and other assorted oddities are back in view. One of the “SyFy” channel’s most popular series is a show about hunting apparitions. The movie Men Who Stare at […]
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