April 17, 2017 0 Grand Theft Auto, Pyongyang North Korea has been the focus of a good deal of news over the last few days, and it may be hard for those of [...]
April 14, 2017 0 The Weekender, April 14, 2017 1) “Harry Potter and The Problem With The Pensieve Memories” (Me, 19 minutes, April 2017). Last [...]
April 13, 2017 0 To Boldly Go Where No Advertisement Has Gone Before The International Space Station — if reduced to two dimensions — is roughly the size of a soccer [...]
April 10, 2017 0 I Hadn’t a Scooby About This One In the 2001 remake Ocean’s Eleven, Danny Ocean (played by George Clooney) puts together an eclectic [...]
April 7, 2017 0 The Weekender, April 7, 2017 1) “The Last Unknown Man” (The New Republic, 52 minutes, November 2016). On July 11, 2011, I ran [...]
April 6, 2017 0 When the First Responder is Also a Disaster On May 26, 2002, the captain of a towboat on the Arkansas River fell prey to a fainting spell, losing control [...]
April 5, 2017 0 Taking “One Person, One Vote” Literally — and Accidentally Maintaining and improving on infrastructure can be expensive. Paving roads, cleaning sidewalks, and the like [...]
April 4, 2017 0 It Starts with P If you’ve never heard the name Hennig Brand, well, don’t worry about it. He’s not a [...]
April 3, 2017 0 The Rise and Fall of the Flivverboobs The general rule for American motorists is that pedestrians have the right of way. That is, in most cases, if [...]
March 31, 2017 0 The Weekender, March 31, 2017 1) “The Trouble with Innocence” (Texas Monthly, 57 minutes, March 2017). Warning: The crime [...]