Common resumé mistakes from hopeful IT graduates
Dominic Connor reads a lot of resumés from recent graduates. He’s offering some simple tips to help yours avoid the short trip to the shredder: Does Ferrari say it makes “reelly good carrrs”? No, it...
View ArticleDelingpole’s word of the day: monotesticularity
He’s talking about Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party: ‘Farage has only got one ball.’ The last time I made reference to the Ukip leader’s monotesticular status, I got a rocket from an...
View ArticleTeachers in the US are not underpaid
An article in the Wall Street Journal examines the facts over the common belief that public school teachers are underpaid: A common story line in American education policy is that public school...
View ArticleJohn Scalzi on the Penn State child rape cover-up
In four points, John Scalzi walks us through what should have happened at Penn State when the first incident was discovered: 1. When, as an adult, you come come across another adult raping a small...
View ArticleEarly game prediction, NFL week 10
I’ll post the rest of my picks on Sunday, but here’s tonight’s game prediction best guess: @San Diego vs Oakland (7.0) Thu 8:20pm Season to date 80-50 San Diego is a good team, they’re sure to...
View ArticleIn memorium
A simple recognition of some of our family members who served in the First and Second World Wars: The Great War Private William Penman, Scots Guards, died 1915 at Le Touret, age 25 (Elizabeth’s great...
View ArticleQotD: The uses of junk science
The Sierra Club campaign against coal is motivated by a desire to reduce CO2 emissions to prevent global warming. But since global warming skepticism and global warming fatigue are widespread, the...
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This week in Guild Wars 2 news
I’ve been accumulating news snippets about the as-yet-to-be-formally-scheduled release of Guild Wars 2 for an email newsletter I send out to my friends and acquaintances in the Guild Wars community....
View ArticleStill no charges in the Gibson Guitar case
An update in the Wall Street Journal just recaps the background to the case, and has an interview with Henry Juszkiewicz, the CEO. On Aug. 24, federal agents descended on three factories and the...
View ArticleScottish Conservative Party goes non-conservative with new leader
It sounds like the set-up to a joke, but it really is true: the new party leader is a lesbian kick-boxer: The 32-year-old former BBC journalist edged out Murdo Fraser by only 566 votes in the...
View ArticleMission Hill wins InterVin 2011 Winery of the Year award
Margaret Swaine reports on the recent Intervin 2011 competition: Competitions like the InterVin International Wine Awards can and do make wines better. It’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation, as...
View ArticleRenewed call for Britain to issue a medal for WWII Arctic convoy veterans
A video report at the BBC website (no embedding allowed, unfortunately) looks at the campaign on the part of Arctic convoy veterans for a specific medal to recognize their amazing story. There are...
View ArticleNFL week 10 predictions
Well, the early game was a disappointment, as San Diego not only didn’t cover the spread, they lost the game. Hopefully the rest of my picks will return to above average form. ∅ @San Diego 17 Oakland...
View ArticleThe report from Greece
Michael Petrou and Stavroula Logothettis survey the Greek debt crisis in a report that Maclean’s cheekily headlines “Acropolis Now”: “We are finished as a nation,” says Marko Gjini, a 39-year-old...
View ArticleStephen Harper’s government is not small-c conservative
The National Post editorial board surveys the federal government’s economic record and discovers it’s really the old Liberal party in disguise: There is no question the Harper government has been...
View ArticleTyler Cowen on traditional values
In his latest New York Times column, Tyler Cowen looks at the relationship of wealth to traditional values of self-discipline and hard work: The Occupy Wall Street movement has raised important...
View ArticleNew wargame “ripped from the headlines”
Clash of Arms games is releasing a new wargame based on a possible Israeli airstrike against Iranian nuclear facilities: Speculation regarding a possible Israeli air campaign against Iran’s nuclear...
View ArticleBullying is bad: banning bullying would be worse
Wendy Kaminer on the District of Columbia (DC) City Council’s proposed anti-bullying rules: It started on college and university campuses, where repressive speech codes have been teaching generations...
View Article“We feel completely and utterly betrayed”
More on the campaign to grant a specific medal to the veterans of the WW2 Arctic convoys: They risked their lives again and again on what Churchill described as ‘the worst journey in the world’. The...
View ArticleBeating up on the Boomer generation
Walter Russell Mead has a bit of vitriol to spit at the Baby Boomers: But at the level of public policy and moral leadership, as a generation we have largely failed. The Boomer Progressive...
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