Maybe twelve years ago at a family gathering, I heard my future brother-in-law complaining that his phone didn’t display the clock all the time. I took his Nokia 5165 from him and started navigating the menus, hearing someone murmur “how does he know what to do?” and another someone answer “he just does. Leave him [...]
The punditocracy is having a lot of fun with this: The choice in this election is between an economy that produces a growing middle class and that gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead, and an economy that continues down the road we are on, where a [...]
Heartening news, my fellow Americans: the crimes of indulgence against our bodies are not quite as heinous as those in at least one other country. In Qatar, half of all adults are obese, and 17% of the population is diabetic. Wouldn’t you have guessed the United States headed those categories? (Here, about a third of [...]
One of my favorite opinion journalists, John Derbyshire, was dismissed from the staff of National Review this weekend. I first heard of it in a roundabout way. I spotted his name in a headline during one of my periodic check-ins at The Nation‘s web site. (That’s an excellent place to monitor ongoing hard left narratives, [...]
Was in Best Buy yesterday. You may have heard they’re closing 50 stores this year. I wouldn’t say the stench of death is yet upon the Huntsville store. It seems to have steady traffic, and the interior doesn’t have that who-cares vibe about it that takes hold. But there is an empty old Barnes & [...]
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