The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

I was recently sent the following article by a friend of mine. He thought it would make my head explode. Judge rules against researcher ...

Every day, the rolls of the dead expand, never to be shrunk again. I am fortunate to have gone as long as I have knowing personally only ...

(The inspiration for this post comes from here , and from a coffee conversation with The Grinch, who asked me the subject line bluntly durin...

0. Dear [redacted], It’s been a while since we spoke. You’re finishing high school and starting college soon, no? Very good. On...

The eternal question about the civil service is its level of competence . At one end of the spectrum is the curmudgeonly woman at the DMV. A...

At some point a few years ago, the predictive power of my models of permanent government improved significantly when I stopped conceiving of...

The world's financial commentators reliably inform us that periods of market activity can be divided up into bull markets, where stock p...