U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) made some really good remarks on giving Bush the power to attack Iraq last...
Jon Carroll used the term "perp walk" today. I had never encountered it before (I'm clearly out of touch with...
One last thing for tonight: in my peregrinations earlier, I chanced across the Samizdata blog glossary. I went there to...
[Wrote most of this a couple weeks ago, didn't manage to finish and post it 'til now.] Ben Rosenbaum has...
My writing workshop recently (tentatively) decided to implement a minac, a minimum activity requirement: have to submit a certain number...
Wanted to say thanks to all of you who've dropped me notes of condolence and sympathy this past week. Even...
[I wrote this last Friday, in the San Jose airport on the way up north; keep forgetting to post it.]...
My grandfather died yesterday morning. That sentence can mean a lot of different things, depending on who says it. My...
I know that death is natural and a part of the great circle of life and all that, but it...
There's been a fair bit of debate in some circles lately about whether to refer to the World Wide Web...
I just posted this to the Rumor Mill, but I'd meant to post it here a couple days ago: To...
Jed's recipe for attaining awakeness at 4 in the afternoon on a sleepy Tuesday. Note that Jed does not normally...