Drove home last night, listening to the tail end of Anansi Boys and then the rebroadcast of the very first This American Life episode. Overlaying them both was the steady hum of the studded snow tires my car wears every winter — they get worse gas mileage and they’re noisy as hell, but my [...]
REUTERS Showcase
Some of these are just stunning. Some funny, some wrenching, and nearly all of them great.
It’s one thing to tell a pair of cats whining to be let outside that it’s wickedly, cat-freezingly cold outside, and that they probably wouldn’t like it if I did let them out.
It’s an entirely different thing to actually open the door and allow them to stick their heads outside, sniff the air, and then [...]
It’s 10:44 on Wednesday night, and Kate and I just got back from being taken out to dinner by our financial advisor. We went to the Home Hill Inn, possibly the swankest and definitely the Frenchest restaurant around. Delicious meal: salad with heirloom beets and goat cheese, then some awesome cassoulet which I’m [...]
The Washington Monthly
Tookie Williams, 24 years on death row, was executed by the State of California last night. I think the death penalty is barbaric, immoral, and ineffective, and the death of a seemingly reformed man in the wee hours does nothing to change my mind. I don’t trust a bureacracy to estimate [...]