Monopoly Killer? I’ve played Settlers of Catan once with my neighbors, and came in dead last — but if you trade me some sheep, I’d consider playing again…
Category Archives: On The Side
[Link] Down with Facebook!
Down with Facebook: If you haven’t laughed yourself into incoherence from reading Matt Labash’s take on the social networking phenomenon, you might end up hating it as much as he does.
[Link] The Truth Is, Spotting a Lie Isn’t As Easy as It Looks
Is the TV show “Lie to Me” pulling the wool over our eyes? Neely Tucker of the Washington Post investigates.
[Link] The Confession
The Confession: I can’t imagine beign wrongly indicted for murder for 40 years. William Thomas was recently cleared by a deathbed confession of a 1967 slaying. Scarlet letters are hard for society to erase.
[Link] Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains
Minds over medium? Facsinating Wired article about how digital overload is frying our brains.
[Link] “Ancient” Syriac bible found in Cyprus
“Ancient” Syriac bible found in Cyprus: A mystery like this is way cooler than the Shroud of Turin.
[Link] The ‘Trophy Kids’ Go to Work
The ‘Trophy Kids’ Go to Work: “For this generation, work is not a place you go; work is a thing you do…”
[Link] Prof. Robert George: Obama’s Abortion Extremism
Princeton prof Robert P. George takes Obama’s abortion extremism to task.
[Link] Tom McClusky on Oxymorons for Obama
Oxymorons for Obama: My friend Tom McClusky takes a closer look at what some of Obama’s more unlikely supporters might be missing.
[Link] Anthony Esolen’s “The Rules” on whom to marry
Touchstone‘s Anthony Esolen gives us a quite profound — and amusing — list of rules for finding whom to marry, and whom to not.