I picked up my new car, yesterday, and it is a blast to drive; no matter how fast you drive, it feels like it wants to run out from under you. (click to enlarge) P.S. The first thing I did, after getting it home (a 170 mile drive), was get a very late dinner at [...]

I’m picking up my new MINI, tomorrow! I spent the weekend at a cousin’s wedding, hence the gap in posts. This week should be better. In other news, I got a new Palm LifeDrive, Friday; it is one cool peice of gadgetry. Given my Palm-dependent lifestyle and the age and memory capacity of my old [...]

My MINI is sitting at the dealer, only a couple hours from here, but I’m going to have to wait until Tuesday to pick it up! Bummer. Note: blogging hiatus coming up – I’m going to an out-of-town wedding, tomorrow.

The NCAA has banned Indian names and mascots at postseason events. One question: if a given people group (tribe, in this case) is not offended by the use of its name and/or likeness by a college athletic department, but outsiders without any ties to that group deem the group’s name, itself, to be “hostile or [...]

Everyone should take at least a quick tour through this site: Logical Fallacies: The Fallacy Files. We all need a logical check-up, from time to time.

I saw a show, last night, that reminded me why I would make a very poor cultural anthropologist. It was about the Zo’é people, also known as the Poturu, a tribe of about 160 in Brazil, near the headwaters of some Amazon River tributaries. They were unknown in the West until 1987.

I paid off all my credit card debt, today, and it feels good. My guitar, my first and second blown transmissions from my old car, business expenses, a bunch of stuff: gone. Of course, I’m not starting law school debt-free; I’ll have a car loan and enough student loans to float a small country for [...]