"We aren't at all entitled to use our moral instincts in the correct way."
Michael J. Totten interviews Christopher Hitchens (Part I, Part II). Here's the opener to Part I: MJT: Ireland has a new anti-blasphemy law. Hitchens: Yes. MJT: At the same time, Kurt Westergaard...
View ArticleSilver Star
New York City (subway) 10 mi (16 km) Newark (PATH) 58 mi (93 km) Trenton (River Line) 91 mi (146 km) Philadelphia (SEPTA) 116 mi (187 km) Wilmington 185 mi (298 km) Baltimore (Light Rail) 225 mi...
View ArticleWhy *would* Edmund Burke support it?
You may not know this. But all the smartest people on the Right are basically ashamed to be associated with you. Your “success” in building a set of near-permanent institutions, think-tanks, and...
View ArticleHow does his spine even *do* this? (And he still has root access, dammit.)
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View ArticleQuants and wealth destruction
On Wall Street, they were all known as "quants," traders and financial engineers who used brain-twisting math and superpowered computers to pluck billions in fleeting dollars out of the market....
View ArticleAmericana/alt.country playlist for Bunny
And anyone else who's interested. Lyle Lovett: "Lyle Lovett" (debut album), "Pontiac," "It's Not Big It's Large" (with the Large Band) - a good introduction is "Anthology Vol 1, Cowboy Man", but there...
View ArticleOpenSourceSodaPop.com is gonna take you down to the soda fountain for a malted
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View ArticleReviewed briefly: "I'm New Here," Gil Scott-Heron (2010)
4 out of 5 stars (* * * *) He sounds like forty miles of bad road, but Gil Scott-Heron, the hard-living New York Poet who once taught us that The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, is back with a...
View ArticleReviewed briefly: "The Stick and Cane in Close Combat" (Tom Lang, 2006)
One of the most thoughtfully written and nicely illustrated "how to" books I've seen in a long time, "The Stick And Cane In Close Combat: Jointlocks, Takedowns and Surprise Attacks" is about how to...
View ArticleAnd Obama is Wellington. Afraid so, yes.
At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision: unlike, say, Democrats in 2001 when President Bush proposed his first tax cut, we would make no deal with the administration. No...
View ArticleCurrent events in snapshot form
Maria the Korean Bride gets married in Raleigh, NC 60 Hudson St, NYC, aka the Western Union building, from a morning walk in the rain Breakfast in Chapel Hill with Mark, Joyce and Carrie Drinks in...
View ArticleReviewed briefly: "ITIL Lite" by Malcolm Fry
Reviewed: "ITIL Lite" by Malcolm Fry (ISBN 9780113312122) SUMMARY: If you're thinking of implementing ITIL v3, read this book first. * * * * (4 out of 5 stars) Malcolm Fry, who has been around the...
View ArticleAt liberty: Writer, editor, manager, geek, chef de cuisine, raconteur
Hi. I’m Barry Campbell, and this is an application for a job. I’m an experienced writer, editor and manager based in Chapel Hill, NC, although I also have many clients and friends in New York City,...
View ArticleSometimes Google Voice transcripts are really shockingly accurate. And...
From my Google Voice inbox, this thoroughly puzzling "transcript" of a caller's message: "Bye really what your bye. So I want balls and I don't know if you have them. He's the trail from capsules. I...
View ArticlePlease allow me to introduce myself
Dear members of the OpenNMS community: Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Barry Campbell, and I’ve just joined The OpenNMS Group, Inc. as Director of Communications. In my new role, I’m...
View ArticleThe Fawaffle Experiment
Carrie may have just hit upon a million-dollar idea! She came up with the idea of the falafel-waffle - the Fawaffle, in other words - and conceived of it as a thing that could hold all kinds of sweet...
View ArticleBuilding forts with Bob
Bob Campbell, my father, was an engineer by trade. Bob Campbell at home, early 1980s He trained as an electrical engineer in the late 1950s and then went to work for IBM. That was pretty much getting...
View ArticlePeople love Shopsin's for their own reasons
Apple executive, about owner: The way I see it, you plop down 14 dollars to listen to Kenny talk for an hour. Fire department regular, paying check: I'd pay 24 dollars for Kenny to shut the fuck up...
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