No Smoking?

The other day someone asked me what I thought about laws that ban smoking in bars and restaurants.  My response is that it’s a health issue.  If we can regulate the quality of food in public houses (the long name for pubs), we can regulate the quality of air too.  Others seem to think that…

Timothy McSweeney recommends…

I’ve read McSweeney’s quarterly magazine before. It’s great. If your local library or mega bookstore has it in stock, check it out. If not, there is always the website… http://www.mcsweeneys.net/ But what brought me to the website most recently was an odd web search which yielded this page on the McSweeney’s site… http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/recommends/.  All sorts…

On Thanksgiving…

Originally published at Kickin’ the new Kuh-nowledge. You can comment here or there. I convinced my boss that I didn’t have to drive up to Chicago this week… meaning that I could work from home all week instead of doing my normal weekly commute.  Saves gas.  Saves time.  Saves my sanity. Liz had arranged for…