An interesting post by Patrick Belton on Oxblog. Quite simply, I fell in love with Dearborn. The largest concentration of Arabs or Muslims in the United States, it’s a study in contrasts – in between miles upon miles of depopulated Detroit blocks now filled only with commercialized sex – Dearborn appears, a small thriving colony… Continue reading Arab Americans in Michigan
Volokh Conspiracy
The Volokh Conspiracy has moved to http://volokh.com. Adjust your bookmarks accordingly.
Movies
Since our camping plans were cancelled due to rain, all we really did was watch some movies. Bend it like Beckham is a typical comedy showing the clash between immigrants and their children. It is about a Sikh family in Britain. Their daughter wants to play soccer which they consider a bad thing for girls.… Continue reading Movies
Impeach them all
If it were up to Unqualified Offerings, 7 out of our last 11 post-WWII Presidents would have been impeached. The only ones to finish their terms: Truman, Eisenhower, Ford and Carter. JFK is iffy. Jim, please don’t make impeachment a joke.
Haloscan Import
As Miranda noted in a comment to this post, Haloscan has an RSS/XML version of the most recent 10 comments available. If I save the XML file and then delete those comments, I’ll have the previous 10 comments and so on. Since I have 409 comments on Haloscan, I’ll have to repeat this process 41… Continue reading Haloscan Import
Change of Plan
We cancelled our Maine camping plan because there will be some heavy rain there and it’ll be raining all weekend with a probability close to 100% according to the National Weather Service. Plus the visibility might not be great either. We’ll decide in the morning what to do. We might go somewhere else where it’s… Continue reading Change of Plan
Going to Maine
I am flying out to Jersey in a couple of hours. We’ll then drive to Maine for the long weekend. I’ll be back Monday night. No blogging until then.
Are You a Terrorist?
Here comes a stupid judge with a stupid remark: Mrs. Khoder, a United States citizen who arrived from Lebanon 14 years ago, appeared in court last Thursday before the judge, William R. Crosbie, to challenge two parking tickets left on her dashboard within an hour of each other. She said the judge repeated her name… Continue reading Are You a Terrorist?
Camping
We are going camping in Maine over the weekend. We seem to have the worst luck with camping. Almost every time we go, it rains. It seems this would be no exception. I should probably buy some rain gear before going. I bought a nice small backpacking stove recently. It is a Primus Yellowstone Lite.… Continue reading Camping
MT Plugins
I have installed two Movable Type plugins. Smarty Pants shows curly quotes (“”), en-dashes (—), em dashes (—-) and ellipsis (…) to appear correctly. Textile makes text formatting much easier and also creates ™, ©, ® and the proper times symbol in 3×3. If you see any problems on how the blog looks on your… Continue reading MT Plugins