Archive for February, 2005

I’ve noticed that Burberry is really popular with the ladies in The Hub. I find that kind of amusing, beacuse on the other side of the puddle, Burberry and its competitors (Stone Island, Aquascutum et al) are the preferred brand of hardcore soccer fans, the so-called “casuals.” Casuals band together in groups commonly known as [...]

Five guards at Sweden’s maximum security prison Hall Correctional Facility south of the nation’s capital, Stockholm, have been indicted for aiding four felons to escape from the prison last year. One guard is suspected of having smuggled a gun and several cellphones to one of the convicts, and he also left the convict’s cell door [...]

Everybody’s favorite Asian country, Malysia, is looking to boost its patent registration office, according to the New Strait Times. Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Shafie Apdal said there were only 42 patent examiners available locally, mostly lawyers who are not technically trained to draft patent documentation. This has resulted in many patents being [...]

Anna Dahlberg tror att den bruna invasionen från det mediokra landet söder om den alldeles för grunda floden kommer att sopa bort republikanerna, medan hennes kollega och f.d. kommunisten PM Nilsson tror att horderna av socialister från tredje världen kommer att lockas av den frihetliga kapitalism som sprungit ur det anglo-protestantiska folkdjupet. Det är ganska [...]

It was splurging-time last night as the missus and I went to Legal Seafood’s Theatre District restaurant. As I so often, but now always, do at Legal, I ordered Surf and Turf, lobster style. See, I like steak, but it seems a little silly to not have seafoodish items when you go to Legal. Hence, [...]

Good piece in the Boston Globe on the habit of wildly overestimating crowds. Personally, I don’t really care whether 150,000 or a million parade-goers greeted the Patriots after New England’s latest triumph. The important thing is that I was there. There’s no reason to make up numbers just to make a story better. Hey, the [...]

Wall Street Journal columnist and editorial board member on leave John Fund won’t say no to a lap top he likes, even if it belongs to somebody else.

When I was a little kid-o I thought American universities were the greatest thing in the world. And I was right – they were. But nowadays they’re little more than feeding troughs for second and third-rate bizarro lefy-wing ideologues. Foreign competition will one day wreak havoc with America U., but for the foreseeable future the [...]

Get-out-of-debt-guru Dave Ramsey is pushing really hard for President George W. Bush’s Social Security plan. Almost as hard as Armstrong Williams pitched the grotesque No Child Left Behind Act. I know nothing, I’m just saying. UPDATE: For some strange reason I got Armstrong Williams name wrong. My apologies to all persons names Michael Armstrong.

Carpundit says nasty things about Cambridge: “A good friend of mine, a lifelong New Yorker, is in town for a couple weeks, staying in Cambridge with his aunt. I warned him about Cambridge before he came, but he thought I was just being reactionary. He’s changed his mind. He reports it is a town full [...]