The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Ben...

Conceivably, not having him. Think about it. At the moment, North Korea is constantly making belligerent threats and acting like it's ...

Ha! (via SMBC )

I was going to write a post discussing my hunches about who it was that pulled off the Boston bombing. I was, but then Gary Brecher beat me...

Anything on the heels of the last post is bound to be flippant. So it goes. So why not go the full flippant? I finally came across a youtu...

Some thoughts on the occasion of receiving an email from a friend. He went down to the Boston marathon to watch his friend finish, and was p...

The great Desmond Dekker: Music this good was being played in 1968? Unheard of! (via Steve Sailer )

Apparently they're making a movie called '42' . Knowing only this much about the movie, it's a useful way to segment peopl...

If you, like me, were a nerdy type-A personality at school, you probably loathed getting put into groups for assignments. Inevitably, you...

F*** critics, you can kiss my whole @**hole  -Jay-Z,  '99 Problems' One of the most patently absurd lyrical devices that musicia...

The US Supreme Court is currently considering arguments for and against gay marriage. In the prognosticating about what was going to happen...

(...continued from Part 1 ) The aftermath of the financial crisis saw the election of Obama, and the resulting stimulus bill was basically...

Shylock circa 2003 was mainly a neo-conservative. By this, I mean that I tended to view democracy as both a moral good and an instrumental g...

As they said in Wargames, the only winning move is not to play. Over at Priceonomics, they had an excellent piece recently with the arrest...

Accountancy  always suffers the reputation for being boring and dreary. "We pore through arcane pages of tax law to find out how to sl...

The most useful source of information on US political events, Intrade , is shutting down : With sincere regret we must inform you that due...

From the New York Times magazine, a photo shoot of models with their mothers . Japanese artwork often associates the female form with the ...

Over at Hacker News, there was a link to this great Forbes article talking about the differences in regulation in the treatment of eggs . A...

There was this great piece on Hacker News a little while ago on the  Silk Road . Apparently it's possible to buy drugs over the internet...

So if you haven't been following, Isabella herself graced us with her presence in the comments to my post on the blog 'She's a...

Quote of the day, from AL, referencing the case of Oscar Pistorius, the South African paralympian accused of shooting his girlfriend : I&...

Like the tobacco industry, you need not want to purchase a product to respect a well-constructed business strategy. Consider the example o...

(Previous thoughts on the psychology of strip clubs  here , and male self-deception in relationships  here  and  here .) The standard comp...