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Things like the Omega boar brushes, Meißner Tremonia Strong ‘n Scottish...
A good shave is a great pleasure, and this morning I picked things I particularly enjoy. The Omega 20102 brush is by now well broken in and it is a pleasure. I like the Strong ‘n Scottish fragrance a...
View ArticleA hacker for the NSA speaks up
Peter Maass reports in The Intercept: The message arrived at night and consisted of three words: “Good evening, sir!” The sender was a hacker who had written a series of provocative memos at the...
View ArticleMene, mene, tekel, upharsim: Mosquitoes Have Developed Resistance to Every...
Note that the article, foreboding as it is, is one of a series. And truly, take the impact of climate change (in spreading this mosquito that has evolved to resist all our tools by expanding the...
View ArticleFascinating article: “The Oracle of Arithmetic”
By Erica Klarreich in Quanta: In 2010, a startling rumor filtered through the number theory community and reached Jared Weinstein. Apparently, some graduate student at the University of Bonn in Germany...
View ArticleTrump pwned by two women
And Trump being who he is, that hurts. Josh Marshall explains it well. The concluding paragraphs: . . . It is also why Elizabeth Warren – an unexpected Twitter street fighter – appears to have gotten...
View ArticleThe last meal before chaos: Venezuelans are storming supermarkets and...
If global warming causes widespread crop failures, we’ll set a lot of this. CARACAS, Venezuela — In the darkness the warehouse looks like any other, a metal-roofed hangar next to a clattering overpass,...
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Van Yulay Bay of Roses with the Rockwell
The Omega silvertip badger brush shown is quite good, but it’s not one of my big, puffy Omega badgers. This one is more a normal steady silvertip brush, and it did a fine job with the Van Yulay sample...
View ArticleHow Sony, Microsoft, and Other Gadget Makers Violate Federal Warranty Law
Interesting report by Jason Koebler in Motherboard on how manufacturers try to weasel out of their legally imposed obligations even when it’s against the law—another example of companies willing to do...
View ArticleWhy the Private Prison Industry is About so Much More Than Prisons
David Dayen reports at TPM: Nowhere has the outsourcing of public functions to private companies been more systematic than in the criminal justice system. It’s so pervasive that the phrase we use to...
View ArticleThe Age of Disintegration: Neoliberalism, Interventionism, the Resource...
Patrick Cockburn writes at TomDispatch.com: We live in an age of disintegration. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Greater Middle East and Africa. Across the vast swath of territory between...
View ArticleCorporate Fraud Demands Criminal Time
Amen, I say. Robert Tillman and Henry Pontell write in the NY Times: We’re now getting an idea of just how expensive breaking the law can be. Ten years after Volkswagen executives first decided to...
View ArticleChinese Cold Boiled Chicken
I made this recipe and it’s very tasty. Ingredients: 6 large bone-in chicken thighs Salt pepper 1 two-inch piece of ginger, peeled and thickly sliced 4 garlic cloves, sliced 3 star anise 4 scallions, 2...
View ArticleBernie Sanders: Democrats Need to Wake Up
My thought is that Bernie has continued the campaign because the campaign is (and has been) nothing more than a platform to try to wake people up: he recounts the facts of our existence, and then...
View ArticleInteresting choice of bank strategy
Stay large and meet the requirements for systemically important banks, or go small and avoid those requirements (because if you do fail as a small player, no biggie). Good post on this by Kevin Drum.
View ArticleMan! What a column!
Just read it. Cary Tennis. Advice column. Hard hitting. Well written.
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Perfectly smooth with the RazoRock Old Type, and my Vie-Long badger+horse brush
The Vie-Long brush is, I’m almost certain, a badger+horse mix. The slightly grey cast of the knot seems characteristic of such brushes that I’ve had. I do soak it for the horse content. I got some...
View ArticleThe Life of the Parties: The Influence of Influence in Washington
Thomas Frank, author most recently of Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? and before that of What’s the Matter with Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America,...
View ArticleWhere Are The Drone Casualty Figures the White House Promised Months Ago?
Alex Emmons reports in The Intercept: Despite months of repeated promises, the White House has yet to release its estimate of civilian casualties from the administration’s drone program – a delayed...
View ArticleProsecutors who love the death penalty (for others)
Jordan Smith reports in The Intercept: “Cowboy” Bob Macy was a legendary — and infamous — prosecutor in Oklahoma City. Elected the top law enforcer in his county five times, Macy, who died in 2011, was...
View ArticleCIA knew it had the wrong man, but kept him anyway
Matthew Schofield reports for McClatchy about the incident: By January of 2004, when German citizen Khaleed al Masri arrived at the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret prison in Afghanistan, agency...
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