The New York Times, a division of the Israeli Military. So something happened in Gaza today, something horrible even by the abysmal standards of that terrible situation. Here’s the headline in The […]
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Drones—threat or menace?
Wait, what drones? Well, for starters, the ones that Amazon is testing, which have a 50 mile range, and a five pound payload. All so you can get that book faster. Of […]
BBC wises up on Climate Science
Last year we bemoaned the fact that the BBC, which we do love dearly in spite of its occasional faults, was consistently blowing it on its climate change coverage. This has been, […]
So, how’s that vote on Scottish independence coming?
Say what you will about Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond, there’s no denying his political instincts. Salmond’s most recent blast at David Cameron, which appeared yesterday in The Independent, suddenly takes […]
Blair, Rumsfeld or Wolfowitz: who’s the biggest dick?
It’s a tough call. On the one hand, we have former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair whining to an unappreciative world that what’s going on in Iraq now—which appears to be a […]
The many lives of Charles Mingus’s “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat”: a great song lives forever
Some songs take on a life of their own. It’s not clear to me—perhaps not to anyone—what turns a tune into a standard. I was reminded of this recently when I finally […]
Hornstra Farms: local hero, redux
Local, natural, community focused: Massachusetts’ Outstanding Dairy Farm is thriving. When we last visited John Hornstra five years ago, he had just bought a local farm here in the pretty affluent suburbs south […]
Unsolicited museum review: Quilts and Color at the Museum of Fine Arts
The Paul Pilgrim and Gerald Roy quilting collection both instructs and exhilarates. If you wander over to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and plunk down the $25 admission fee (more on […]
Liveblogging Eurovision 2014
Ah, Eurovision. Or more properly, The Eurovision Song Contest. If you’re a lover of serious music, look away now. On the other hand, if you’re devoted to crass, cheesy, over-wrought and overproduced […]
Fracking in the UK? Don’t hold your breath.
Lord MacGregor’s silly Telegraph op-ed is little more than a recitation of energy industry talking points. The worthies over at the House of Lords—some of them, anyway—have issued a report deploring the […]
