Aug 19,2008
Video of the Day
The Film Drunkard posted this awesome animated short. It’s long, but neat. Give it a watch:
Aug 19,2008
Some Like It Raw
We have always had to have “a good reason” for doing away with small operators, and in modern times the good reason has often been sanitation, for which there is...
Aug 18,2008
Two Obama-related notes
In the waking of the massive FUBAR situation in Georgia, Jamie Kirchick points out over at Contentions just why we should try and avoid one-on-one talks with dictators when the...
Aug 18,2008
Richly rewarded
Set in the muted chaos of New Delhi, where motorized auto-rickshaws, cows, luxury cars and begging urchins mingle in the hot, dusty streets without much incident (though not always without...
Aug 17,2008
That's the whole point
This paragraph over at the HuffPo is as amusing as it is frustrating: Well, I thought I would bang on about this for a while, let’s say as long as...
Aug 15,2008
One more Olympics note
How should the “winner” of the medal race be counted? Only by gold medals won, as the ChiComs want, or by total medals, as the USOC appears to want? This...