I see that Radley has used P.J. Doland’s word frequency cruncher to create a list of all the words used on his site, in order of how often they’ve been used. I suspect that the Italo Calvino fans out there immediately thought, as I did, of a certain passage from If on a Winter’s Night […]

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I’ll profess a certain amount of befuddlement at the very sharp Antony Flew’s apparent reasons for backing off his well-known atheism. The gist seems to be that he’s dissatisfied with the various accounts of how complex organic molecules might have first emerged, as well as being swayed by “fine tuning” arguments to the effect that […]

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Hmm, well, having forgotten to pack one of those wacky “adapters” for the local electric and having not had a whole bunch of free time to go hunting for one, the torrent of D.C. Yankee in King Arthur’s Court blogs I hinted might be forthcoming seem not to have forthcome. In compensation, however, I offer […]

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I’m off to London to give a talk for the Adam Smith Institute next week. Normally, bloggers who’re going away apologize for predicted lighter blogging. Since posts are already shamefully sparse, it’s actually more likely there’ll be an uptick, since I’ll probably have more interesting things to write about. Any UK-based readers who want to […]

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You’ve probably read stories about religious pharmacists refusing to prescribe the morning after pill, or even ordinary birth control pills. I wonder how they’d feel about that ubiquitous pharmacists’ “Rx” symbol if they knew where it came from. See, Dad’s been going through an Egyptian phase. (I was named during his Roman phase; I’m told […]

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I meant to blog a couple of weeks ago about an excellent band I saw at a small local venue—The Advantage. Their hook is that they exclusively play covers of old 8-Bit Nintendo game songs. (The NES Advantage, recall, was an old-school Nintendo joystick.) It sounds like a gimmick or a novelty act, but they […]

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A look at the new spending bill, “De Omnibus Disputandum.”

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Years ago, the brilliant Terry Gilliam, responsible for Brazil, 12 Monkeys, and various other phenomenal films, was tapped to do a movie adaptation of Alan Moore’s seminal Watchmen. Didn’t work out—in part because he wanted to make it 12 hours long. C’est la vie. More recently, fans of the graphic novel were excited to learn […]

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Now, why aren’t contemporary American children’s shows more like this?

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Welcome the incomparable, ineffable, inflammable Lane McFadden back to the blogosphere.

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