the game of life

The folks at the BBC have a neat online quiz to help you sort out your financial behaviour.  You will need to convert your figures from dollars to pounds. Read more

The Boston University Colllege Republicans have established a $250 scholarship for students who are at least one-quarter caucasian (not "whites only" as the dishonest headline* would have you believe). One BU thumbsucker is whining That’s money wasted, according to David Coreas. "I wish I could apply: That $250 could help me pay for my textbooks," Read more

Arthur Brooks of Syracuse University writes: "For too long, liberals have been claiming they are the most virtuous members of American society. Although they usually give less to charity, they have nevertheless lambasted conservatives for their callousness in the face of social injustice." Considering that social justice is just a codephrase for communist redistribution, I Read more

…when I call people bastards.  Do I not understand the meaning of the word? Read more

The Times (London, not New York), has some advice for today’s crusading campus secularists: A blinkered secularism is no better than theological dogmatism. Tip from the Instapundit. Read more

These people really need to get a life. It ain’t inside that Playstation box. Tip from the Drudge Report. Update (19 November)  More people who need to get a life. Read more

"Forget the cheesy chat-up lines, flash car or dodgy dancing, men are now whipping out their mobiles to attract the ladies, research from Sheffield Hallam University reveals." I’m not sure I’d want to appeal to the kind of women who admire a 21st century blabloso. Tip from the Freakonomics Blog. Read more

Just in time for Hallowe’en, Lileks comes up with an old movie poster that exactly describes how the new Ph.D. students in our department are feeling:  The Walking Dead. Read more

One of my favorite tactics to get good service is to simply say, "Can’t do it right now?  No problem, I’ll wait–right here–until someone can get it done."  Back in 1958, some black teenagers in Witchita, Kansas, waited for lunch…and waited…and waited.  After 3 weeks, they got their lunch. and changed history. Tip from the Read more

My wife and I, like many others, find the widespread use of cellphones to be distracting and annoying.  This afternoon, my wife sat browsing a fashion magazine while I was trying on shirts at my favorite resale store [you cheap bastard].  Some self-important lout sat next to her, and began talking on his cellphone, in Read more