Make that, "On Dressing Not So Well." Here is a picture from a mall in Santa Monica, first appearing in the Los Angeles Times. The article which surrounded this picture…
Switzerland announced a contest for a new National Anthem. Because why? Because the old one has too many references to the Man Upstairs. Yes: Project leader Lukas Niederberger (not enough…
Here's some information for you: this is a statue of Claude Shannon, tucked in-between two unfrequented buildings in tiny Gaylord, Michigan (most buildings are unfrequented here). Shannon's the guy who…
This is written in earnest; my desire is sincere. And not uncommon: I mean, the longing for a superpower and the announcing of same are not rare. No less than…
Such was the title of The Atlantic's "The Big Question" column of March, 2013. This is the sort of piece one finds uppermost in the toilet's magazine rack. So now…
It is difficult to discover one word which adequately and non-misleadingly describes what is today called "music" and what used to go by that name a century or more ago.…
According to the latest in medical science, I sat next or near to an exceptionally healthy individual on my last flight. My keen olfactory senses alerted me that a fellow…
What we see in today's title the result of a lack of education. Latin nouns have more declensions than Chicago Aldermen have ways for a dead man to vote. I…