I am spending the week in Harris County, a.k.a. Houston, a.k.a. the death penalty capital of the world. I nearly got permanently lost in its subterranean tunnel system, but have otherwise have had a lovely ol’ time here and have not been murdered once, or even had to put anybody to death. And then, I …
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So the nag of the north, David Walsh, is out of business. For 15 years his Minneapolis-based non-profit has been calling out the media for propagating material that corrupts children. He once got the video game Grand Theft Auto recalled. He believed that screen violence corrupted our youth. Don’t let the door hit you on …
Because I have too much free time, and because my imagination tends to work in the weirdest of ways, I often dream up nightmare scenarios involving myself and my daughter. The most common one goes thus: My wife and I somehow die silently in our apartment, but Sasha survives—at least for a few days, during …
There was one thing I wanted to do last month in Berlin after I was done with all the smoking, drinking and glamrocking: buy wooden toys. Unfortunately, they don’t come cheap. If you look closely at the picture, taken at a Berlin toy store, you can see the €19.99 price tag. That’s almost $30 for …
