Kate and I are both working out more, so I made a batch of Alton Brown’s protein bars to have around. They’re actually pretty good! I worked mostly with what I had in the house and used almond butter instead of peanut butter and crystallized ginger instead of apricots; next time I think […]
The Federalist #51
We knew it then. Why don’t we know it now?
But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defense must […]
Atomic Blast Photos
Via Warren Ellis, some pictures of the first few microseconds of an atomic bomb going off. Weirdly, hauntingly odd. The pictures make the explosion look like something malevolent and biological and rapidly growing — like cancer, if that’s not too hackneyed a comparison.
Lafayette Noda called at 7:50-something this morning to “inform me” that he and Geordie (I suspect I’m not spelling that right) and Chris and Kesaya would be splitting and stacking wood this morning. Not to request my help, mind you, but just to “inform” me. Which made me laugh. Lafayette hates to […]
Dan Savage | The A.V. Club
Dan Savage rocks.
AVC: You’re still sometimes harsh or dismissive or aggressive with some of the people you deal with. Is there a philosophy to that attitude?
DS: Oh, absolutely. I always think of the column as a conversation I’m having with friends in a bar about sex. And people say, ‘Oh, […]