Month: August 2011

From Austin, Texas. What’s on your mind?

Today (or yesterday, I guess – Monday Aug 29) I went out to run a few errands around town. It didn’t really occur to me to be on the lookout for hippies and gypsies. But our favorite guests are back in town again and...

I was pointed to this three-year old book excerpt from Yuval Levin’s Imagining the Future: Science and American Democracy by a post at America’s Shittiest Website. Surprisingly, the excerpt turned out to be quite...

Once Labor Day is over and Congress is reconvened, the president is going to unleash an ambitious economic program aimed at reducing unemployment. We don’t know what the details will be, yet, by Congress is going to have...