Again, I’m not a Seahawks fan, but it should be interesting to live in a city whose team is celebrating a major championship. Good for
80 years ago yesterday, Adolf Hitler, the strange Austrian who headed a movement that combined violent thugs with some of Germany’s leading industrialists, was sworn
In 2011, Giuliano Mignini, the prosecutor responsible for making a pig’s breakfast of the Monster of Florence case and damaging, possibly beyond repair, the futures
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronomer, the way Henry Hill wanted to be gangster. I grew up on Carl Sagan,
Yesterday wasn’t just Martin Luther King Day. It was also 51st anniversary of the Wannsee Conference. A lot of people lazily describe this event as
Yesterday I did a marathon post that was largely about how smart people convince themselves to believe weird things. For those who hadn’t gotten enough
Sadly, this isn’t video, just a picture of Venice reporting on the legislative session for TVW Channel 23 (our local version C-Span). If you live
I’m not all that big a Seahawks fan, or one at all really; but seeing people excited for their team is fun, and if the
Update (3/26/2015): Amanda Knox and Raffele Sollecito were acquitted today by the Italian Court of Cassation. So ends their legal nightmare. I wish them both the best
Yes, we’re talking about Mein Kampf, apparently one of the bestselling political books of the year. B-School grads in India are expected to have devoured its