December 2010
bananacasts asked: I like stories.
Anonymous asked: Could you explain to us what it's like being a Mormon in the South?
genstarrinn-deactivated20111208 asked: I don't have any questions for you, but you are one of the first people I followed on tumblr and I still follow you and I still love you. The end.
lidmo asked: The Muppets: Discuss.
Anonymous asked: Just how many nipples do you have, anyway?
ilyagerner asked: No questions, just a comment. I came to your blog from Tyler Cowen's link to your Beyond a Reasonable Doubt piece, which was very interesting, but left me feeling a little uneasy.
The defendant in "your" case had the benefit of a full adversarial trial proceeding prior to negotiation of plea bargain. But up to 90% of all convictions are achieved via guilty pleas, and...
The defendant in "your" case had the benefit of a full adversarial trial proceeding prior to negotiation of plea bargain. But up to 90% of all convictions are achieved via guilty pleas, and...
tiffanyjmoore-deactivated201303 asked: I'll bet you think this song is about you, don't you?
lafix asked: I can't help but think that if Charlize Theron visited Charleston, an epic headline would result. Why don't you take a crack at it? Go!
24 hours later, they reappear. Tumblr, you strange...
Thanks for the questions. Answers forthcoming.
November 2010
Today, the day after the Thanksgiving holiday, I have a meeting scheduled in suburban Baltimore. I caught a 6:30 flight to Laguardia, because naturally when you’re flying to Baltimore from Charleston you should go through NYC without getting to actually stop and enjoy NYC. After my 90-minute meeting ends, it’s back to the airport to be routed through Atlanta and back into Charleston at...
Conversations with the Other Half No. 8,364
Me: I think I could totally get into adventure racing.
Wife: Oh GOD, you would think you’re so cool if you did that. [Redacted]’s husband is an ‘adventure racer’ and he thinks he’s so awesome and he has ‘racer’ friends and he’s gone all weekend. I don’t get it. It’s so stupid.
Me: Wait, you don’t even know what it is and you...
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Girl Talk Talk
All Day is good but feels a little forced, like it’s more about the samples than the music. The great moments are pretty brilliant, but for my money — or free download, as it were — Feed the Animals is still Girl Talk’s high water mark.
Isarithmic History of the Two-Party Vote →
blurbed:
Hat tip: @gruber
Great look at U.S. presidential voting trends over a century.
Very cool video when you click through.
Also...
In the past two months, I’ve competed in an event that was inspired by The Biggest Loser and another that was inspired by The Amazing Race. I appear to have been unwittingly indoctrinated into a seedy underworld of reality show groupies, which is simultaneously way cooler and way sadder than Civil War reenactors.
Hey, at least it’s not pageants.
Charleston's Mazing Race in Charleston, SC |... →
As part of the winning team, and as the No. 1 (Jim) and No. 2 (me) finishers in the Healthy Charleston Challenge, Jim and I got automatic entry into this Amazing Race knockoff called Charleston’s Mazing Race. The course was roughly 12 miles and featured all of the things you might see on the TV show, like challenges where we had to fold an American flag just right, ride a canoe to the middle...
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
I’ve spent the better part of the week serving as the foreman for a jury in a criminal case. As they tell you, you’re not allowed to talk about it with anyone, not even your fellow jurors, during the trial. As they also tell you, once the trial is over you can talk about anything you want. So, here goes.
I am one of those civics nerds who does not look for every excuse not to serve on...
Men Who Share Opinions, and the Women Who Ask for...
Wife: What do you think about key lime tartelets alongside bite-sized cupcakes for a baby shower? Are they baby-showery enough?
Me: I think the key lime tartelets sound a lot more baby-showery than the cupcakes.
Wife: Whatever, you don’t know jack shit about baby showers.
Me: I’m out.
April 2, 2010
From Mashable:
Microsoft plans to wait and see how iPad sales perform before adapting Microsoft Office 2010 for the device.
I wonder how that’s working out for them?
Nancy Franklin Reviews "Sarah Palin's Alaska" →
Excerpt:
Palin says, “I love watching these mama bears. They’ve got a nature, yeah, that humankind can learn from. She’s trying to show her cubs nobody’s going to do it for ya, you get out there and do it yourself, guys.” That sounds great, except that in this case the mother bear is doing all the fishing while her cubs splash around on a nearby rock, ignoring her. When a bear growls, Palin...
Truthful Tuesday
It’s very unlikely that I will ever read Infinite Jest.
Re-Examining the Friedmans: Molestation Case Under... →
I was working at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2003 and got to introduce the New York area premiere of Capturing the Friedmans, the documentary about the Friedman child-molestation case. It’s an incredibly bizarre, controversial and polarizing case: on one side are those who firmly believe that Arnold Friedman, who admitted in the minimum to receiving child pornography through the mail, was a...
Colorado DA drops felony hit-and-run charges... →
Certain days I’m more proud to be an American than others.
It goes on.: People think Colorado has harsh... →
kaffeineme:
Mostly because we tend to get our first snow early (we’re really late this year - it’s usually happened by Halloween) and that tends to make the news, and because a surprising number of people think Denver is in the mountains, and big snows up there make the news.
In reality, we have really…
Salt Lake is basically Denver with Mormons, and having lived in New York I agree...
Credit
I reckon I’m a few days late on this tip but I must admit that the tumblr app update for iPhone is better than respectable. Certainly it’s not perfect, and certainly my opinion is flavored by how underwhelming the last two updates have been, but it’s still good. Naturally, how photos and videos are handled visually is a vast improvement but so too are the options for reblogging...
Wise Bread
I have a friend who’s trying to do some stuff with the great thrift-thinking website Wise Bread. Are any of you fine people involved with that fine website and/or know somebody who is?
Dear Michele,
I appreciate your sentiment and agree that resorting to name-calling of political opponents is counterproductive. However, let’s not go too far down the path of “they’re just like you and me,” and give examples like a young Republican woman who is offended because the GOP is derided as a bunch of old white guys, because that scenario just isn’t normal.
Here are the...
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