Presidential candidate issue profiles

A general guide to figuring out which candidate has an issue profile compatible with yours. (Tip of the hat to Adam Robins.) I was somewhat surprised by my results: Kucinich 33 Dodd 30 Biden 29 Gravel 29 Richardson 28 Edwards 26 Brownback 24 Obama 23 Clinton 23 Paul...

Magic GarageBand

My order of Apple’s iLife ’08 came yesterday and although I’ve only had the opportunity thus far to play with iPhoto and GarageBand, I’m utterly smitten. iPhoto is a terrific update and GarageBand’s new Magic GarageBand feature let me...

One thing that drives me nuts

Women Catholic priests. Now I’m not a woman, a Catholic, or a priest so I understand that this isn’t my battle. (If it were, I’d be on the side favoring women’s ordination and an end to the priesthood’s celibacy requirement.) But...

Babel

Babel takes four interconnected stories and weaves them into a two hour and thirty minute mosaic, the overarching theme of which seems to be that human stupidity knows no geographic boundary. From Japan to Morocco to Mexico, us humans are idiots in our own...