The free market is a wonderful thing. It’s remarkably good at supplying the goods and services people want and need, and the alternative of top-down planning has been shown pretty conclusively not to work. (I should admit my bias here: … Continue reading
In the United Kingdom, citizens can petition their government on line. (The same is true in the U.S.; see https://petitions.whitehouse.gov.) If 100,000 people sign on to a given request, a committee of Parliament takes it up for consideration. The most … Continue reading
Last night I braved my way out into the cold for dinner at a local restaurant. As I walked in I saw a guy lounging on a bench outside and chatting with a woman who was heavily bundled up and … Continue reading
Probably the fastest approach, but attempt only if you have good balance: Link: https://youtu.be/PM73djdgxZI If for some reason you can’t view the clip, the technique is for the dad to stand behind the very small child who’s wearing a winter … Continue reading
Here’s Magic of Rahat’s compilation of the best pranks of 2015. A lot of these are pretty funny, at least to those of us who are easily amused. Link: https://youtu.be/rdQ23o2ft8Q If you click through to YouTube you can see Rahat’s … Continue reading
Like everybody else, my New Year’s Resolutions include getting more done, losing weight, getting in better shape, and so on. I also hope to do things faster and more efficiently and to say a little more of actual substance on … Continue reading
OK, here we have a guy is a Star Wars costume balancing on a ball droid while playing fire-spewing bagpipes. What the actual frack? as the kids say… Link: https://youtu.be/_YZfAJDYeOk OK, this is apparently happening in Portland. That probably explains … Continue reading
I’m told this is a take-off on the first two Twilight films, which I haven’t seen. As I have admitted more than once, one of my character flaws is a tolerance for dumb parodies, and this one has one or … Continue reading
Rob Reiner’s romantic comedy, about an aging and disagreeable real estate agent (Michael Douglas) and a depressed widow and nightclub singer (Diane Keaton), is watchable but formulaic. It begins when Douglas’s estranged son drops off his daughter (Douglas’s granddaughter, who … Continue reading
English writer Kyril Bonfiglioli wrote a trio of well-received comic thrillers in the 1970s that were compared favorably to the works of P.G. Wodehouse. Their hero, Lord Charlie Mortdecai, was an adventurous but not very competent aristocratic art dealer who … Continue reading