Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
The human body has approximately 1 trillion cells with DNA inherited from our parents.  In addition, we have approximately 10 trillion bacterial cells with their own DNA.  We presumably get some of them from our mother because we grow inside her, pass through her, feed off of her, and grow up around her.  We [...]

Mornings I get on the laptop first, Mrs. Offering always asks me, “What’s going on in the world that I should know about.” Most days I don’t have a good answer. But today I can say unequivocally: “A baby panda in China tried to escape from its playpen. There are pictures!”
Via The Agitator.

Tom Knapp gathers the latest absurd overreactions by what is still, barely, a transportation system. Strictly speaking, a transportation system moves people and things from one place to another. Soon this will be considered entirely too dangerous in practice. Perhaps the only solution to the dilemma – people need to get from one place to [...]

The polite but devastating takedown is a venerable art. So is the more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger leavetaking. But the "obsequious smackdown" is just an oxymoron, which is a problem for Conor Friedersdorf’s rebuke of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds, who apparently is still blogging. Friedersdorf boils down the Instapundit Method succinctly enough, especially useful in the unlikely event [...]