Prudent living tip for today: wild animals make bad pets. Corollary: wild animals who are a) several times stronger than you are, and b) inherently unpredictable make horrible pets. You know, if you’re going to live on thousands of acres where you can run around in a loincloth and chant and commune with them and … Read more
Guess the author: “Genuine bipartisanship assumes an honest process of give-and-take, and that the quality of the compromise is measured by how well it serves some agreed-upon goal, whether better schools or lower deficits. This in turn assumes that the majority will be constrained — by an exacting press corps and ultimately an informed electorate … Read more
Another day, another blood-runs-in-the-streets piece on driving while talking on a cellular telephone. I talk on the phone while I drive. I have no plans to stop when it’s illegal, either. (Inserting an “if/when” in there seems a needless fantasy at this point.) I choose times and topics carefully, and if either begins to threaten … Read more