Great to see them all again…. Hat tip: John Wilkins.

Andrew Sullivan is having some fun making sport of National Review’s tacky predilection for annual cruises. I don’t blame him. Honestly. Perhaps while the blessed WFB was still alive and up for this sort of thing, given his affection for all things nautical, maybe it made sense. But really. If it’s time for conservative journals… Continue reading

Dan Kennedy brings us up to date on what’s rotten in the state of Massachusetts: I am pleased to report that everything has returned to normal in the land of the bean and the cod. While the rest of America celebrates the election of Barack Obama and hunkers down for the economic apocalypse, we in… Continue reading

Sean Carroll has been perusing arxiv and finds it instructive that denizens of the steady state theory are still publishing: For those with any lingering doubts, the Big Bang model — the idea that the universe has evolved from a hot, dense, smooth initial state — is correct, and the Steady State model should have… Continue reading

I’m well past the age of the gents in question here, but… it has not been that long since I was in the same phase, and way too much of what’s going on in the ‘dating’ scene now is all-too-familiar.