The color of night

Really. That would be the general color of the night sky if the universe wasn’t expanding. You’ve probably never wondered why the night sky is black. “No sun,” you point out. “Duh.” But it’s not that simple. Every single bit of sky is full of stars, all blazing away. The light may take a long [...]

Mad Men: Three Ibsen Plays

Dramatic Literature was my first English credit at college and I remember thinking that it was really fun but totally useless.  When was I ever going to use it?  Apparently, it was a concept waiting for an application. Decades later, Matt Weiner created Mad Men.  I started watching Mad Men in the second season, just [...]

Your Breakfast Read, Sunday Edition

Fratricide within the GOP in NY-23? Health-care reform? Financial reform? What the White House looks like for Halloween? Screw it all. There are other News that are at least as much interesting. Let’s check’em shall we? Around The Nation I thought I was the only one who found it rather strange that the Obama would [...]

Exit, stage left

Chris Cillizza at WaPo:   San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom (D) ended his campaign for governor today amid faltering fundraising and an inability to make up ground on frontrunning state Attorney General Jerry Brown. “It is with great regret I announce today that I am withdrawing from the race for governor of California,” Newsom said [...]