Home-cooked Jamaican dinner
As promised, here is one more Jamaican food post to round out my monthly resolution of one blog post every day. Tonight we stayed in and cooked. On the left you...
Month: February 2015
Walker and creationism, ctd.
David Bruggeman has a sharp comment on my last post you should check out. For now I’d like to respond to this: Now, if a politician is a creationist, I wa...
First Bouie, now McArdle
Megan McArdle becomes the second prominent journalist to agree with me and argue that it doesn’t matter if Scott Walker believes in evolution: I’m g...
All hail Gayle!
Since I got such an overwhelming response from my last cricket post, I thought I’d do another one! Two nights ago West Indian–and Jamaican!–cr...
On reclaiming a pejorative word
Via an ancient Andrew Sullivan post, here is Margaret Talbot on an embracing insults and social change: Banning is really only for words that solely degrade or ...
STEM majors need the liberal arts
Loretta Jackson-Hayes in the Washington Post: Our culture has drawn an artificial line between art and science, one that did not exist for innovators like Leona...
Who am I rooting for in the Cricket World Cup?
I know the 7 billion readers of this blog have a burning question: who am I rooting for in the Cricket World Cup now taking place in Australia and New Zealand? ...
Weekend science, religion and etc. reading list
It’s a day late. But here it is: The Washington Posts’s Alyssa Rosenberg looks at Christianity in the FX show “The Americans.” More a ca...
On resolutions and writing
About three years ago I started working for the company I still work at. At the time, all incoming customer-facing employees had to attend weekly meetings of To...
Science with a side of humility
Charles Lane offers some wise words: There’s a lesson here for all of us, especially those who urge that this or that public policy be dictated by “the science....