Or, “Anything for Halloween?” as we used to chant at doorways when we went around in the Days Before Television. Other differences between Halloween in Ireland then and the U.S. now include the absence of pumpkins and the stricter dress code—we had to dress up as something frightening, whereas in the U.S. it’s more like […]
In every Presidential election-year since 1936, if the Washington Redskins lost their last game before the election, the incumbent lost as well. In today’s game, the Packers beat Washington 28 – 14. A late rally by the Redskins in the 4th Quarter couldn’t save them. This is the strongest spurious evidence yet that Kerry’s going […]
While looking up something else, I came across one of the Top 10 Best Things in a Preface ever written by an academic. It’s from Garry Runicman’s A Treatise on Social Theory, Vol II:
I have also been faced with a dilemma about the use and transliteration of sociological terms from languages other than English … […]
Somehow I missed this, but Jason Kottke made an interesting observation about popular blogs a few days ago:
Out of Technorati’s top 100 most-linked weblogs**, only 16 don’t feature advertising or are otherwise noncommercial: Scripting News / Doc Searls / kottke.org / Jeffrey Zeldman / The Volokh Conspiracy / Scobleizer / Lileks / Joel on Software […]
A guy went by me the other day wearing a T-Shirt that read, “I bet you’ll vote this time, Hippy.”
David Post complains that John Kerry was not at the game to see the Red Sox beat the Yankees:
AND WHERE WAS JOHN? … I’m surprised that there hasn’t been much talk about why we didn’t see Kerry at any of the games. He’s the junior senator from Massachusetts; he’s got a bona fide reason to […]
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