Saturday, January 26, 2008

Blame the Welder

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Mack Hall The first smoke had barely risen from a famous no-tell in Las Vegas before someone said that the fire was probably caused by – sur...
Sunday, January 20, 2008

Huckabee and the Squirrel

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Mack Hall Mike Huckabee ate Rocky the Flying Squirrel! Okay, he really didn’t, but he did state while campaigning in Las Vegas that when he ...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Chariots of Plastic

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Mack Hall Seventy-something years after Germany invented The People’s Car, India has reinvented it. The Tata Group (I’m not sure what a grou...
Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Is Primary Voting Primarily for Primates?

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Mack Hall The non-system of primaries and caucussing is fascinating, possibly because, like John Kerry’s self-invented war record, it is a g...
Thursday, January 3, 2008

White Lung Syndrome

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Mack Hall Trying to understand the writers’ strike is genuinely problematic. There are only about 10,000 entertainment writers along the Ne...
Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Send Out the Clowns

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Mack Hall Send out the clowns. No, this is not a piece about the candidates for the presidency. Imagine, if you will, a film in black-and-w...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

It's Not Over Until January 6th

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Mack Hall Every year some folks take up their crayons and write querulously to the newspapers to demand that Christ be returned to Christmas...
Sunday, December 16, 2007

Drug Testing at Valley Forge

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Mack Hall Last week the most recent drug scandal took everyone’s attention away from lead-painted Chinese Christmas toys, and no wonder. W...
Sunday, December 9, 2007

Don't You Care About Arboreal Lemurs?

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Mack Hall A friend carries a special little leather wallet just for carrying extra batteries for his hearing aids, said batteries apparently...
Sunday, December 2, 2007

Kyle Field

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Mack Hall “The Credit Belongs to the Man…” People of faith have long made pilgrimages to holy places: ...
Sunday, November 25, 2007

Monkey With all the Trimmings

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Mack Hall Monkey With all the Trimmings Mrs. Mamie Manneh of New York faces trial for importing bits ...
Sunday, November 18, 2007

The House That Rodney and His Friends Built

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Mack Hall "That in this moment there is life and food For future years." -- Wordsworth When Rodney died he left behind an unfinish...

Father of the Bridesmaid

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Mack Hall Once upon a time two Aggie chicks shared an apartment almost in the shadow of blessed Kyle Field in the holy city of College Stati...

Thanksgiving Causes Global Warming

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Mack Hall Long, long ago the Mayflower was sunk by an iceberg and the Pilgrims stepped ashore with the Really, Really Revised New Intergloba...

Thanksgiving Causes Global Warming

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Mack Hall Long, long ago the Mayflower was sunk by an iceberg and the Pilgrims stepped ashore with the Really, Really Revised New Intergloba...
Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Pontius Pilate's Pleynt

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Mack Hall Pontius Pilate's Pleynt My Caesar and my Empire have I served, A diplomatic func...
Sunday, November 4, 2007

L'Affaire Bagdad: The American Diplomatic Service Inaction, not In Action

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“I shall have to delay you for a few minutes. You see the Legation is only just open and we have not yet got our full equipment. We are ex...
Sunday, October 28, 2007

News From the Real World

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Researchers from a Welsh university have discovered a 400-year-old clam off Iceland. When the clam was transported to Wales it immediately ...
Sunday, October 21, 2007

"It looked like a war zone."

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No, it didn't. First of all, there is no such thing as a war zone. There is war, of course, and it is nasty, ugly, violent, foul, and l...

Chaucer and the Laboratory Tales

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I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, bo...