Archive for the 'Diversions' Category

Blogging from an iphone

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

My verizon contract finally expired today, opening the way for me to buy an iPhone at long last. Naturally one of the first things I downloaded was Wordpress for iphone, of which this post is a test.

The Totalitarian Olympics

Friday, August 1st, 2008

They’re run by an all-powerful international committee, and whatever luckless city hosts the games becomes a police state for the duration. So why exactly is anyone upset that the Olympics are coming to China?
The Onion captures the hysteria:
The Beijing Olympics: Are They A Trap?

Quizzes

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

ISI’s big push at the moment is for the Civic Literacy project, which has been garnering quite a bit of coverage, including this piece in USA Today. The project involved testing students (freshmen and seniors) at fifty colleges and universities on their knowledge of elementary U.S. history, civics, foreign policy, and economics. Take the quiz [...]

Bush: “History Cannot Judge Me If I End It Soon”

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

More classic truthiness from America’s no. 1 news source, the Onion.

If You’re In the D.C. Area…

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

…consider attending the first event of the Robert A. Taft Club at 7 pm tonight. It'll be a panel discussion on immigration and civil liberties featuring William L. Anderson, Carl Horowitz, James P. Pinkerton, and yours truly.

Are You a Neocon?

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

This quiz I put together several years back is in need of an update. But outdated though it may be, the "ideology selector" can still be fun. Just fun, though; there's no pretense to scientific accuracy here: like the Psychic Friends Network, this is for entertainment purposes only.
This brief and somewhat typo-marred article — [...]