Now Entering Laboville

The turkey has been cooked, eaten, and put away for leftovers. Bread was baked, stuffing stuffed, potatoes mashed, squash roasted, onions c...

Hemingway wrote what he touted as the world's shortest short story:  "Baby shoes for sale; never used."  Since then, Wired mag...

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Accordingly, we in Laboville would like to give a hat tip and a sincere thank you to t...

There are lots of reasons to stay in school, and apparently, the ability to read this blog is one of them.  On a lark, I submitted Laboville...

That was the week that was... It has now been a week since Barack Obama became our president-elect.  Something about the last week of news c...

Remembering 9/11, Part II This is a post that I wrote on the second anniversary of 9/11. Somehow, in the waning days of the Bush Administrat...

Remembering 9/11, part I This morning at 9:25 a.m., the NYSE observed a moment of silence on the trading floor. On my way to the trading flo...

Harry Potter and Primo Levi Just finished reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows . My initial impressions are mixed -- on the one hand...

Spinning the F-word The Democrats in the Senate attempted to force a vote on a bill (the "Reed-Levin Amendment") that would have r...

Great Speeches A propos of nothing, I was reading a book review on Arts & Literature Daily [ link ] about great speeches in American his...

Logic Has No Place in Journalism London's Daily Mail ran an article last week about "nose art", which is the generic descripti...

Bigots and Bullies Hi, remember me? I used to blog here. I've been away for, well, let's just say it's been a while. So what iss...

My Campaign Commercial I have a simple idea for a campaign commercial, and though I lack the time and expertise to actually produce it, I of...

The Fog of War I hate to be a drape in the midst of the media frenzy now that JonBenet Ramsey's alleged killer has been found, but as of...

Eulogy for My Mother In Memoriam, Deborah R. Labovitz, Ph.D., OTR, FAOTA October 13, 1942-July 14, 2006 My mother died an untimely death at ...

Common Cause? A quick quiz -- in what publication did the following statement appear? The biggest problem is Bush himself, who—though a dece...

My So-Called Life as a Blogger If you've read my blog lately, you'll notice that there hasn't been much to read. I'd like to...

Not the Usual Carping and Complaining If you're not from New York, the name Quachaun Brown probably doesn't mean anything to you, so...

But What Do the Experts Know, Anyway? A quick hit this evening/early morning. The CIA Journal has an interesting article suggesting that ov...

What I'm Pondering At the Moment The New Criterion has an interesting article about demography. [ link ] The basic thesis is that while...

George W. Bush, Loyal Foot Soldier in the War on Christmas A little late for Bill O'Reilly, but here it is -- evidence that President Bu...

You say FEE-sah, I say FI-sah Slate has a disturbing article about the checkered history of NSA spying on U.S. citizens. [ link ] One thing...

Surviving the Strike Well, day 1 of the NYC Transit Strike is history, and I have to say, it wasn't so bad. In fact, I'm embarrasse...

On coincidences Abraham Lincoln's speech in Edwardsville, Illinois, quoted in my last post, reads as an almost pitch-perfect counterpoin...

Inherent Authority ...For more on the President's invocation of "inherent authority" to flagrantly violate the Constitution an...

If You're Such a Believer, I Suggest You Pick Up a Rifle, Son Alright gang, let's sharpen those #2 pencils - there's going to be...

Read Free Republic. Learn Something. Who knew? There is a media theme going around (may have originated with the Democrats, or maybe Repub...

Can you smell it now? Good. Innocent until proven guilty, yada yada. Tom DeLay's indictment is the big news of the moment, but it woul...

Another Quick Hit Liz, at Spectator Sport, refers to this post, but it deserves as much airtime as it gets, particularly for those of us who...

Quick Hit Survey USA, a national polling outfit, has been tracking daily changes to President Bush's approval/disapproval rating for the...

If You Can't Trust Stars and Stripes, Who Can You Trust? So here's an interesting snippet. There was a Republican talking point tha...

It Just Doesn't Ring True Yesterday's New York Times had an article about Michael D. Brown, entitled "Casualty of Firestorm: Ou...