American Pandemic: RLS

Certainly you’ve heard of ALS, HIV, AIDS, Bird Flu, and SARS. There’s a vast number of potentially debilitating, if not deadly diseases floating around this planet, just waiting for some poor sap to contract it, whereupon there comes quarantine and strange tests, stranger treatments, and a life that will never be the same.
This being the [...]

Backyard Fight

Over the past couple of weeks, authors Malcolm Gladwell (The New Yorker) and Steve Sailer (The American Conservative) have engaged, horns locked and twisted, in a blog-fight to the death over race. Well, racism. These two, probably charming, white fellows, American and Canadian, one with a funny beard and the other with a funny haircut [...]

Best of Luck

Today, ESPN’s Bill Simmons wrote a surprisingly good piece about the Allen Iverson situation in Philadelphia.  It would appear that Simmons hasn’t completely lost his once-formidable writerly chops, and if his editors could keep him from mailbags and the inanities of Boston sports, perhaps he would find a personal renaissance.  Regardless, Simmons topic was A.I., seasoned [...]

Keep on Counting!

Firstly, Mr. Thursday feels obligated to apologize in regards to the prolonged absence of the past two weeks.  It was due to no fewer than two illnesses that he really hopes will never happen again.  Regardless, we’re back and, though poorly rested, feeling strong, so we resume with furor and something to WATCH. 
 For those of [...]