There are exactly two useful things teachers said in high school that have stuck in my head ever since. For different reasons, they’ve been bouncing around my head a bit lately, so here they are in case anyone else finds them useful: I spent a lot of time when I was younger trying to be […]

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Tom has more pictures, as does Matt Klokel.

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Pics of the full costume to come…

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I just agreed with pretty much all of a John Derbyshire post. Weird.

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Apologies for the radio silence; I’ve just returned from a Liberty Fund colloquium in Guatemala. I should probably post on some of the interesting discussion there, but what I actually find myself turning over and over in my head is: Why does everyone have the same goddamn black, dark-grey, or navy blue roller suitcase? It […]

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It was nice to meet Belle Waring at a Blogorama earlier this week; I’ll confess some small level of amusement that her first words to me, loosely paraphrased, were: You’re Julian Sanchez? Gosh, I hadn’t expected you to look like some scruffy hipster.

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I’m afraid I’ve turned on TypeKey registration for the blog; the waves of comment spam were getting too obnoxious, and even a pretty good internal filter wasn’t catching everything. Apologies for the hassle.

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Probably those of you who don’t daily pore over GAO reports don’t care, but dear lord, who writes the soporific headlines for Government Accountability Office studies? They all have exactly the same structure, and they’re almost entirely uninformative. If the Department of Foobar is doing pretty well, the headline will say: “Progress at DOF, but […]

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Courtesy of Joanna Robinson, I discover a book I’ve got to pick up.

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From a conversation earlier today: Me: Yeah, I think she won that debate by TKO. Friend: Right, like in Mike Tyson’s Punch Out. [beat] Or… boxing.

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