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It Appears That I Was Very, Very Wrong About Canned Beer
A week ago I confessed my bias against beer that came out of cans, rather than from a tap or one of the brown glass bottles that have come to be associated with America's craft-brew renaissance....
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Science Speaks on the Crucial Canned Beer Question!
In response to previous installments one and two, an Actual Scientist writes to set us straight about what really happens to precious droplets of beer when they are housed in amber-colored glass...
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The Great James Rowe Memo
There is enough self-referential content to this post to justify the apposite Escher illustration. But not enough to keep me from doing it at all!My friend Timothy Noah has an excellent item at TNR...
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Adventures in Translation, Part 2,148
Everyone's favorite illustration of the perils of computerized (mis)translation has been the scene at right, from a restaurant in China in the mid-2000s.Below we have a new candidate, courtesy of a...
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Update on Lin, 'Jewish Dominance' of Hoops, and Ethnic Traits in Athletics...
Following this item earlier tonight about the ethnic element in Jeremy Lin's athletic skills, and emphasizing that what follows is explicitly not related to Robert Wright's original post on the topic,...
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Jeremy Lin's Secret? It's Not That He's Asian
Once again I am on the road and off the Internet, so let me be the last person on Earth to weigh in about Jeremy Lin. I'll do so by disagreeing totally with my longtime friend and recent colleague...
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How Would Jeremy Lin Fare in a Pickup Game in Beijing?
A 20-something American now working as a translator in China sends this report:Having lived in Beijing for five years now, I've played in more than my share of Chinese pickup games. Something that...
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Interesting Compendium of Obama Administration Bests and Worsts
We all know the limits of online "polls." There's no random sampling, zealots can skew the results, and so on.But the poll of most- and least-favorite achievements of the Obama administration that has...
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The Mysteries of Barack Obama: Cervical-Thoracic Edition
Here's one good reason to Subscribe!â„¢: it keeps us in business. Another: for our current issue, which really is good*, many subscribers got their in-the-mail issues a few days before the magazine went...
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Iran-Drumbeat Watch: 'A Scary Club of Warmongers'
Last week I mentioned Mike Lofgren's observations on the strange media-political history of the "Iran threat." The world is full of, ummm, imperfectly governed states, at least two of which actually...
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Meaning of Lin
Last from me on this topic, until Jeremy Lin is MVP of the NBA Championships, followed by leading the U.S. to an Olympic win this summer. For maximum drama, the gold medal game should be against the...
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Today's Aerial Innovation News: Spin-Resistant Icon A5
Over the years I've written several times about the Icon A5 "amphibious airplane," or what I like to think of as a personal-scale flying boat. Back in 2009 I officially put it on my Christmas Wish...
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The False Equivalence Watch: Good News and Bad (and Good)
A reader sends in a positive example of a paper moving past the "false equivalence" trap. It's a New York Times story this past week on the "Heartland" controversy. The story says, with emphasis...
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Hero of American Capitalism: Jim Koch
I've long been biased in favor of Jim Koch, founder of the Boston Beer Company, at right in a picture from today's NYT. -- Two percent of the reason: he was a college classmate of my wife's -- along...
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In-House News: 'Tricks of the Trade' Interview
For the record, Media Bistro has run a Q-and-A with me on "tricks of the trade," including what to do if an interview is going nowhere. Results are here.Also, I was part of a panel about the presidency...
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More on the Hall of Beer Heroes
In response to my nomination of Jim Koch, founder of the Boston Beer Company and creator of the Samuel Adams line of brews, for craft-beer canonization, three main trends in reader response:1) What...
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What Austerity Hath Wrought
Some day people will look back in puzzlement at the prevailing U.S. mood of 2011, when in the face of the biggest job-loss collapse in two generations the prevailing rhetoric from Democrats and...
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Iran Drumbeat Watch: Now, on Page 1
Anyone following the news already knows this, but for the record: it's very good to see the NYT running, on page one and above the fold*, an analysis of the reckless agitation for a preemptive military...
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OK, We Can Make Our Reasoned Critiques of Obama's Governing Style and All ...
... but then he gets a chance to sing at the White House tonight, doing Sweet Home Chicago with Mick Jagger and also B.B. King?? Jeesh, talk about being the most powerful man in the world. And about...
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The (Last) Return of Donald Westlake
This is a trifecta! I'm able to knit together three previous contacts and/or themes.#1: Patrick Anderson, who was long ago my mentor/boss on the Carter '76 campaign team, and who since then has been a...
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