Category: long story short

In Net gains, an op-ed in the Boston Globe, Cory Doctorow argues that a political sleeping giant – the Internet-savvy – is waking up and trying to learn how to go beyond pointing out flaw and poking holes. He mentions the greater sources of news information online, weblogs, and things like the campign Meetups and…

I lost five productive years of potential 410(k) accumulation at the beginning of my working life because I expected the international monetary system to collapse within the decade. You should always have bought a house 15 years ago, no matter how outrageous the price seemed then. One of my favorite books of philosophy is Money…

I was really not at my best yesterday. Everything felt like a struggle. I forgot simple things when shopping, brought home fruit with gouges or visible patches of mold on them, knocked over two beers next to the refrigerator so hard that I loosened their caps and they started foaming up all over the linoleum.…

Apparently the aviator-flashback doll of President George W. Bush didn’t play well with others in the household (and backyard) of this writer.

Matt Welch deftly illustrates how Gray Davis, a trimmer, has micromanaged himself into standing for nothing and for nobody. OK, I guess “raising money” and “himself” might fit the bill, but the point is that those of us who fear another right-wing coup legal project have little to fight with here. We can be against…

In this Blogcritis post, Stephen Silver fisks Bill O’Reilly’s “editorial” defending the Fox network’s lawsuit against Al Franken (for people outside the Instapundit orbit, fisking has come to mean interlacing a source text with refutations and rebuttals). While scanning the article (it isn’t too hard to debunk O’Reilly’s half-baked bluster), I noticed a familiar typo:…