I have a lot of sympathies for the ideals of the Libertarian party, but their campaigning skills leave a lot to be desired. … [Read more...] about Why Nobody Takes the Libertarian Party Seriously.
Bob Greene
In an amazing bit of local news, Chicago Tribune Columnist Bob Greene has resigned under pressure for "inappropriate sexual conduct some years ago with a girl in her late teens whom he met in connection with his newspaper column." I quoted last part exactly because as fellow blogger and actual journalist Bill Dennis points out, Greene's activities aren't spelled out too … [Read more...] about Bob Greene
InstaPundit Number.
In the spirit of the mathematicians' Erdos Number, I got the idea to introduce an InstaPundit number. I was going to call it a Reynolds Number because that sounds more scientific, but it turns out that designation is already used by fluid dynamics folks. Actually, it also turns out that Erik Jones at The Bind invented the InstaPundit Number a few months ago, but since he's … [Read more...] about InstaPundit Number.
Evacuation Engineering.
In one my September 11th anniversary postings I mentioned my initial back-of-the-envelope calculations on the World Trade Center death toll. My first thought had been that the World Trade Center holds 50,000 people and I might have just seen them all die. My brain eventually started working and I realized that people must have been streaming down the emergency stairs the whole … [Read more...] about Evacuation Engineering.
Cowardice, Part 2.
I'm writing today about a few things I would have written about last year if I'd had somewhere to write. When last year's attacks started, President Bush was down in Florida. He broke off what he was doing and immediately boarded Air Force One. Instead of flying back to Washington, he flew to an Air Force base in Louisiana where he taped a message for broadcast to the American … [Read more...] about Cowardice, Part 2.