Astrid Phillips Mayer

Did you see this Dilbert strip? http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-05-10/ I laughed uproariously, then got seriously depressed. Then ...

First things first: Mr. T just had jury duty as well! Next things next: Last week, through this past Monday, I had jury duty on an attempted...

The Big Takeover , by Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Magazine (April 2, 2009 issue). In eight pages, Matt Taibbi explains what I've felt in ...

Thanks to Parlophone , and to Jamie for pointing me in the right direction. Bonus: I now understand the term " jackanory ."

Are we ruled by an oligarchy of banks? Is our government too close to the banks to properly regulate them? Do we need to chop up a few of ...

Happy first of October! Back when I lived in Chatham, NJ, I had a math teacher in seventh grade named Mrs. Licato who made a pretty big imp...

Neatorama: The Last Lecture This is my gift to you, dear (jaded) reader. Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon who has changed so man...

It's easy for me to forget that there's anything worth blogging about beyond media crap...until I read this: "The day before ...

For those of you who've been living in a cave up until now, the 19th is Talk Like A Pirate Day, and Wikipedia has a pretty comprehensiv...

So, Famima!! (exclamation marks NOT mine) just opened a couple of blocks away from me, and I was leery. What, I wondered, do we need with a...

Note: the Ze Frank link now works! Fabuloso! This made my day. And Ze Frank is my hero; this guy rocks like a geologist. Yeah. And hey...