Because I just can’t get enough: But it seems clear enough: exactly the same alliance that gave us Iraq is giving us Libya: the neocons who want to see the US military deployed across the globe in the defense of freedom and the liberal interventionists who believe that the US should intervene whenever atrocities are [...]
If Savage’s ethical guidelines—disclosure, autonomy, mutual exchange, and minimum standards of performance—seem familiar or intuitive, it’s probably because they also govern expectations in the markets for goods and services. No false advertising, no lemons, nothing omitted from the fine print: in the deregulated marketplace of modern intimacy, Dan Savage has become a kind of Better [...]
Most all of us are grownups and can handle extreme argument, but clearly some people are not, and obviously I’m not just talking about Jared Loughner. To see that, all you have to do is attend almost any family gathering, where once-loving relationships have been completely lost because of the overheated right-left culture war. If [...]
In one classic memory experiment, for example, participants study 48 words and then divide a subset of 24 of them into categories, like food or animal. The act of categorizing reinforces memory, and on subsequent tests people are more likely to remember the words they practiced than those they did not. In his version, Dr. [...]
Tea is properly made if, when drunk, the world feels a little warmer, a little better, and a little less immediately threatening. It is well made if you involuntarily sigh after taking a sip. The steps and methods needed to achieve this transcendence, are, like all religious experiences, widely varied, of intense personal significance and [...]
Remember that if an ass-hat like Kevin Smith can succeed at something like film or life, then what the fuck is stopping YOU from doing the same? I was not ‘to the manor born’. This shit was not manifest, nor was it ever offered.
We join Deathly Hallows “already in progress” as they say, with the action picking up where the previous film left off. For someone like me, who has not internalized the entire Potter canon (and who somehow got out of seeing the sixth movie–I’m not sure how that happened), I spent a lot of time wondering “what [...]
“I think there’s a huge disconnect between ACL’s world-class artists, and the gas station-class concessions they’ve defaulted to. The arrangement is obviously broke, and the gap is so glaring, that I’m confident it’ll get fixed. To anyone who would rather be drinking a can of Southern Star instead of Bud Lite: All it would take [...]
The W Austin Hotel, nearing completion north of City Hall, will start hiring Thursday for 300 jobs. Opening range from food service to security, accounting and front desk positions. The W also is looking for a particular person to be its Insider — someone with “unparalleled local knowledge” who will be the face of the [...]
Imagine you’re sitting down to eat, but before you take a bite, you whip out your smartphone, fire up a special app, and take a picture of your food. The app identifies the food types by appearance, then calculates the size of your portions, and estimates your intake of calories, carbs, protein, vitamin, mineral, sugar, [...]