Strong Towns: “The American Jobs Plan Will Make Our Infrastructure Crisis Worse”

It's a funny thing living in Nawbany. The Democrats claim to be progressive, and insist they understand principles pertaining to worldviews like the Strong...

Our weekly editorial meme: “To the dimmer go the spoils”

Well, you KNOW the way they've always been. Vultures hunt by instinct, not college degrees.

C’mon, do you really believe Robert Maxwell accidentally fell off that yacht?

At this point in the nation's haphazard experience, most Americans know far too much about Ghislaine Maxwell owing to her connections with the conveniently...

Hill Street Blues, from a time when I cared about such matters

Thanks to my friend Bluegill, this Hill Street Blues video retrospective was an hour well spent, and mind you, I don't often have warm...

Prioritizing drivers merely fails everyone else

If our city or any other continually cites favorable traffic accident statistics pertaining to cars ALONE as proof that streets are "safer," this of...

ON THE AVENUES: Karma, karma, karma, karma, karma chameleon (The Big Bang Remix)

From the former NA Confidential, November 15, 2020. --- Pedestrians being hit by cars is a car problem. Car congestion is a car problem. Noise and...

NAHA? Four years later, the questions remain unasked and unanswered

At the Jeffersonville News and Tribune, there is an article: "New Albany Housing Authority moving forward with $27 million in renovations," by Daniel Suddeath. City...

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40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 76: A boy can dream – about...

Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 75: My shoes are filled with Volga mud (1999). This installment was terribly hard to write. Kindly...

The abstract modernism of “monuments and memory” in Tito’s Yugoslavia

Controversies over the newer monuments in Yugoslavia also came up as we talked. We discussed the memorial at Tjentište in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Ćosić argued that...

40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 75: My shoes are filled with Volga...

Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 74: Down a rabbit hole, deep into the Belgian beer paradise (1998). Insofar as ordinary Americans know to...