I know it’s been a while since I’ve put up one of these, and I really have no excuse. I’ve not stopped eating around at great restaurants…I’ve just been slack in telling you about them. That ends today. And for one good reason: I had a meal so incredibly AWESOME that to not say something […]
Archives for February 2013
Review | HHhH by Laurent Binet
February 7, 2013 by
HHhH may be one of the most intriguing novels I have read in recent memory. Translated from French, its title is based on a German sentence: “Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich”, or “Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich”. It is the story of the 1942 attack in Prague on Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most dangerous men in […]
Could the proliferation of laws by state legislatures lead to overcriminalization?
February 6, 2013 by
Are we legislating too much? What might be the effect of passing a law each time we find a problem? I was struck by a photo posted by Utah state legislator Dan McCay recently. It was a shot of the voting screen in the Utah House of Representatives during a vote on something called “Dumb […]
With Public Polls Favoring His Resignation, Swallow’s Case is Murky
February 1, 2013 by
The news about John Swallow seems to get progressively worse. His behavior may not have been illegal, but it skirts the line of what the public expects from elected officials enough that a plurality supports his resignation. Though none of the headlines this week has landed with the bombshell effect of that first story in […]
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