Maybe the worst part of going away is the thought of being away from our dog for 6-plus months. So the kids convinced me to video her and post the clip on YouTube so we’d be able to see her if we got lonely for her in Paris. So eat your heart out other dog owners — voici le plus bon chien Elsie: You won’t want to watch the whole […]
Someone asked today for a link to the location of our Paris apartment. So here it is. You can of course zoom in or out and move the map around to see our location vis-a-vis more well-known Paris sites.
I have watched with fascination and repulsion as Hillary Clinton and her smarmy, thug-like spokesmen (yes, men; don’t you think it’s odd that all of her main mouthpieces are men?) continue to fight on and on and on in a cause that is almost certainly lost, apparently content to risk harming the Democrats ultimate nominee for an increasingly tiny chance at victory. If it wasn’t clear before, it is now […]
Barack Obama has to respond to Hillary Clinton’s continued assertion that her “experience” makes her a more suitable candidate for President. One way to do this is to examine her prior experience with one of the most prominent issues in this campaign, which is health care reform. As I remember it, Big Bloated Bill — newly elected and having a supportive Democratic Congress to work with — appointed Hillary Clinton […]
Warning, warning … very catty remark ahead. Those easily offended may wish to stop now. At the gym this morning I was half-watching CNN, without headphones, which meant that I was relying on the pictures and the subtitles for the deaf, so what follows may not be what actually was said. Hillary Clinton was at some rally talking about the one job that she thought really prepared her to be […]
One of my hobbies (of sorts) is photography. Although I don’t seem to find the time to shoot enough, and am not particularly creative either, the advent of digital photography allows me to combine photography with my techo-nerd side. Two wonderful completely free programs for imaging are the GIMP and a GIMP plugin called Mathmap. GIMP is a sort of open-source Photoshop. Mathmap is a program that allows you to […]
As a follow up to this post, the one of the study’s researchers published this commentary today. Among his conclusions: Liberals place a high value on individual autonomy and decision-making. Individuals are expected to internalize the norms of their culture and do the right thing on a case-by-case basis after thinking about it. This strategy can be highly successful but can also be costly in the time required for information […]
I wonder sometimes if Hillary Clinton’s campaign actually thinks about what it’s doing before it does it. A beautiful new example of this was reported today — a new ad, ostensibly targeting Obama, which according to ABC News, goes like this: “It’s 3:00am and your children are asleep,” a voice over says in the ad entitled “Children”. “There’s a phone in the White House, and it’s ringing. Something is happening […]
A fascinating article in last week’s Economist reported on a study by researchers at Binghamton University. They gave volunteers beepers to two groups thought to represent “conservative” and “liberal” camps, and every two hours asked the volunteers what they were doing and how they felt about it. (Unfortunately, like many university studies, they relied on a group that may not be reflective of the whole population — namely, teenagers. But […]
Meanwhile in France, Le President de la Republique, Nicolas Sarkozy, continues his post-Carla Bruni meltdown. The latest … during a trip to an agricultural exposition in Paris, Mr. Sarkozy had a few, um, unkind words to say to a man whose hand he tried to shake who was, to put it mildly, obviously not a Sarkozy supporter (bad translation mine): Man: “Don’t touch me” Sarkozy: “Piss off” Man: “You make […]