The Current Situation

America: Still Number One

I've been a fan of The Economist since my last year of high school (a while back; it's the year…

17 years ago

The Missing Piece

Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

17 years ago

“Oh Beautiful, for Retail Space, for Shopping Elbow Room…”

Here's a graph from a blog posting by Jim "Long Emergency" Kunstler titled Peak Suburbia comparing the retail space per…

17 years ago

"The First Time as Tragedy, the Second Time as Farce"

I found the table below in the article That was Diem; This is Now below on this page thanks to…

18 years ago

Now Available at CafePress…

...the "I Went Hunting with Dick Cheney and All I Got was This Lousy Flesh Wound" t-shirt, for  US$13.99.  Also…

19 years ago

Lost Camera, Bad Samaritans

"Why do the wrong people travel, travel, travel, / When the right people stay back home?"-- Noel Coward [via Boing…

19 years ago

America: A Brief Parable

File it under "It's funny, because it's true": the latest edition of the This Modern World comic:

19 years ago