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The One Argument I Wish Barack Obama Would Make – and Still Wish He’d Make 26 Oct 2012 | 09:19 pm
I don't know what it's really like in other countries' political campaigns (and just reading about what it's like around the world is never the same as understanding it the way only a native understan...
Why Life Is So Hard (It Rhymes With ‘Shmaos’) 24 Oct 2012 | 03:31 am
This New York Times article by David Dobbs reminds us that making a mess of things is so much easier than making...
Maybe We’re Just Living Life at the Wrong Scale 24 Oct 2012 | 03:06 am
Not to get all fractal on you, or all ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny on you (I know, I know: cliché lede)...
And Sometimes Counter-Intuitive Is Just . . . Really Stupid? 24 Oct 2012 | 02:47 am
So this fellow, a professor of culture, media and sport at Staffordshire University in the UK, is going a different...
Depending On Your Job, What Can You NOT Do? 10 Oct 2012 | 08:14 pm
A typically brilliant Onion headline - "Fire Chief Grants Fireman 3-Day Extension On Difficult Fire" - occasions the question: What behaviors and tendencies can you (or should you) absolutely not empl...
A Buck Says You Never Before Heard the Word ‘Skeuomorphism’ 10 Oct 2012 | 07:42 pm
I didn't. Thanks to this interesting article from Fast Company - about the surprisingly-not-at-all-superior...
We’re Still Going With One Person, One Vote? 8 Oct 2012 | 11:06 pm
Okay, just stay with me here. Give me just a little bit of rope....
The Good News Doesn’t Last Long 8 Oct 2012 | 10:32 pm
It's hard to know whether it's a sad story or an uplifting one - both, probably. Seven years ago, Adam Greenberg finally lived his dream, and stepped to the plate for his first-ever major league at-ba...
Victim of His Own Logic 8 Oct 2012 | 10:05 pm
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia recently said that there were several issues that were completely simple...
Probably Jack Welch Doesn’t Believe in Evolution, Either 8 Oct 2012 | 09:52 pm
Jack Welch, former CEO/Chairman of GE and perpetual possessor of a rather...