Generation X is very happy advertisers have moved on to sink their claws into Generation Y. Generation X is very sad it still has to listen to 60-something boomers poisoning the political discourse with their get-off-my-lawn policy positions.

I think it really comes down to empathy rather than aggression: do violent video games make you less caring about hurting people or people getting hurt. I think the answer to that is people who already have low empathy will be drawn to violent games (such as the shooter at Sandy Hook), but the games themselves will…

I don’t understand why everyone is so shocked that Atticus transforms into a racist in his older life. I see it as a perfectly plausible evolution of the character: a young idealist who as he grows old has his morals poisoned by the politics of his time — basically the same thing that has happened to countless…

But do they save the cat?

I met someone who owns one of these cars about a year ago, and he was fully aware that the VIN had been changed. It seems kind of crazy that the lawyer was able to argue that the cars were legal now even though they had been imported illegally, and even stranger that the government could not prove the age when the…

Can you please do one of these interventions for Maureen Dowd? I think she needs our help, too! She keeps going on about Hillary being too old for President when in fact she and Hillary are pretty much the same age!

I’m glad I’m not the only one who has been unable to take my eyes off of Dave’s slow motion train wreck. The most recent one was the kicker: I thought perhaps he had reached a moment of clarity with his talk of “finding a purpose in life” and “grey haired sages”, but then he directed us at the end of the article to go…

Finally we won’t have to watch the actor fiddling with the steering wheel pretending to drive while the car is either in a soundstage or on the back of a flatbed truck.

So much for the "folk process".

Actually, by far the best book on Investing I have ever read is:

My guess is the artist grabbed the map off of some image archive and touched it up to make "The Last City". I doubt they really wanted to make a connection to the actual location. They probably just thought the map looked cool!

There was another study about a year ago (did I read it here?) where they found that while parents with kids were less happy, they were more satisfied — it is hard work, but it is extremely satisfying!

"I felt a great disturbance in France, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

Reading Lifehacker, of course!

Why the Subaru Tribeca? Soccer moms gone bad? Or is it the new street racer of choice?

Yup - If you have kids, the first thing you do is to find a good school. Then you try to find a house as close to the school as possible. After that everything is easy!

In College I took a great course on the Scientific Method - obviously it was not just the silly outline you get in your first grade school science class - it went into all sorts of detail ranging from where good science questions come from to detailing what scientists actually do in the lab on a day to day basis.

Ray Kurzweil's Accelerating Intelligence

I use a standing/walking desk for busy-work like emails and looking up stuff on the web, but when I have to focus, I have to sit, and, like the author, I recline and stick my feet straight out - though I haven not tried it with my feet up! (I use a Herman Miller Envelope Desk with their Embody chair.)

More money = more stuff = more time spent looking after and fixing said stuff.