Winter’s Haven

My mobile phone has been having problems — I couldn’t call out or access voicemail. I now have a different service, and a new phone number. Email me for the new phone number; I’m not going to post it online.

From Utah, a correspondent for The Economist relates that

Ironically, one of the worst places [for Mormon missonaries] to be sent on a mission is the American Bible belt, says another of the students: “People there have had guns pulled on them or dogs set on them.”

Think about that. Of all the many places in the [...]

Is there a cure for the condition where you are perpetually dissatisfied with your computer’s wallpaper image, no matter how many different images you try? Is there even a name for this condition?

After sarcastically venting my frustration that my own impeccably sensible ideas are so are out of the political mainstream, I was reminded of a recent post from Megan McArdle. She doesn’t understand why so many liberals oppose funding education through vouchers, rather than having the government provide it directly, as it currently does. And, frankly, [...]

This poor creature is one of the many cats who have been taken in by Canonical’s devious business practices. Free gets expensive quickly when your t-shirt becomes obsolete every six months.
(Yes, I am ashamed to say that this LOLcat is original. But publicly humiliating myself is a small price to pay for protecting feline consumer [...]

Reporting on the “pay-as-you-go” budget rules adopted by the Democratic majority in Congress, Edmund L. Andrews of the New York Times brings us the news that
Senate Democrats face an agonizing choice in the days ahead: find a way to raise at least $50 billion in new taxes, or undermine their most important rule for [...]