Ran : For the Shakespeare lovers among you -- I'm looking at you, Cass -- Kurosawa's retelling of King Lear is on Hulu right now. I...

Map of the Mind A map of European stereotypes: No matter how I download it, I can't get the detail that would let you read the small let...

Reality and Actuality, Continued: Htom asked for a break to put his thoughts in order before we reconvened on the subject of levels of reali...

A Good Line: I always appreciate a clever turn of phrase. This one is from Ed Morrissey : Right now, [Obama's] got the stature of a Car...

Freedom and the Social Contract John Mauldin posted a hodgepodge of thoughts today touching on freedom and the social contract. He (or his...

Cathedrals: When might we go to the stars ? When could we launch a 10 ton interstellar probe to Alpha Centauri based on these calculations? ...

What Do Global Warming Types Think of Skeptics? Well, let's go to the tape. Thanks for clarifying! Of course, since the debate i...

Zero Tolerance for Public Schools I've been enjoying Greg Sullivan's curmudgeonly "Maine Family Robinson" series on the ne...

Formality and Maimonides: Just the other day, Eric posted a quiz that mentioned the Jewish writer Moses Maimonides. A contemporary of Sala...

Immigration Catch 22: Part Deux The new complaint is that the Social Security Administration sent Meg Whitman a letter in 2003 (six years ...

Is This Really How It Happened? I'm pretty sure I remember this differently, but the New York Times wouldn't lie to me, would it? H...

On Fertility: It's really all a question of fertility .

On a business trip to San Fran and of course I thought of all of you. Masonic Building (same building) Public school building (below)...

Exploiting Illegals I'm really confused. Is Meg Whitman, candidate for California governor, an evil Republican because she employed an ...

Best Worm Ever I'm starting to see stories about the "Stuxnet" computer virus that is supposed to have struck industrial contr...

Dang Kids Today Can't Hold Their Liquor How many times has this happened to you? You put together a nice birthday party for your three-...

"And Forgyf Us Ure Gyltas" H/t: a friend I knew in Iraq, who also reads TYWKIWDBI .

Nano-Scale Solar Cell Structures I feel like more geeky stuff today, so here goes: Stanford University reports that several of its nanotech...

Are the Rich Getting Richer, and Should I Care? Earlier this month, the Canadian Financial Post ran a column by Terence Corcoran on "T...

Formality: So, we had an interesting discussion below about Wagner, and how an artificial thing might be 'more real' than reality. ...