Take the (Night) Train Redux
My recent trip on the night train from High Point, North Carolina, to NYC.
Read more...Category Archives: Curiousities
Summertime and the Living is Easy: In Praise of Farmers Markets
Not every aspect of modern life has been crapified: in praise of farmers markets, and the pleasure of making good jam.
Read more...Take a Walk on the Wild Side: Two Hours Spent Weekly in Nature Improves Health
Study shows higher self-reported levels of good health and subjective well-being for those who spend two hours weekly in touch with nature.
Read more...Promotions and the Peter Principle
The Peter Principle lives!
Read more...CalPERS Surveys Employee Toilet Paper Preferences as Underfunding Worsens
CalPERS manages to outdo itself in dubious managerial practices.
Read more...Jonathan Tepper’s The Myth of Capitalism: “Fucking Unreadable”
Author Jonathan Tepper has sent us multiple reader assisted suicide notes, and we are only too happy to oblige.
Read more...Journey into a Libertarian Future: Part IV – The Journey into a Libertarian Past
Further discussion of the implications of the ideas of an influential conservative libertarian.
Read more...2019 Headlines in Advance
A 2019 forecast
Read more...The Joyful, Perplexing World of Puzzle Hunts
Introducing the ne plus ultra of the puzzle world.
Read more...Love at First Sight—Old Man Adopts Dog
On the importance of a dog as a friend.
Read more...The World Cup: The Dismal Science and the Beautiful Game
A light-hearted economic analysis of the World Cup
Read more...The Italian Mini-BOT Debate
More discussion of how well a proposed Italian parallel currency, the mini-BOT, might work in practice.
Read more...Seed Catalogs of Desire
The history of seed catalogs
Read more...A Thanksgiving Tale: Rescued by Cafe DuPont
A Thanksgiving misadventure has a happy ending.
Read more...Yes Men Target “Better Deal” #DNCTakeBack Scam
The DNC’s Better Deal scam is barely out of the box and the Yes Men are already making fun of it.
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