What's with the burrito? It's conveniently wrapped to eat with your hands, but almost impossible to do so. You can stuff anything in a tortilla and call it a burrito. Of course, the burrito is as close to Mexican food as Pizza Hut is to Neopolitan pizza. It's American, which of course means it's going to be unruly and overstuffed and weird and delicious. Don't believe me? Ask the folks at Burritophile....
Edward Lazarus, a lawyer who won a recent Supreme Court opinion for a client on death row, asks what kind of Justice will Samuel Alito be? After leading with the idea that new Chief Justice Roberts has turned out to be more cutting and partisan than he seemed, Lazarus goes on to describe the opposite surprise regarding Alito. After the Court granted review in Holmes, but before oral argument, Alito replaced Sandra Day O'Connor. It seemed, at the time, that this could only be bad news for Holmes [Lazarus's client]. O'Connor was a very strong advocate for the line...
No matter what you think of immigration, this is a truly remarkable statistic, though perhaps not surprising (from cantankerous gringo geezer Lou Dobbs). But here is the official record of your sense of duty: 318 employers out of five and a half million in this country have been fined for hiring illegal aliens since 2001. In 2004, only three employers were fined. That is a dismal record, Mr. President, as dismal as the fact that the number of ICE agents assigned to enforce immigration laws in the workplace has declined from only 240 back in 1999 to now less than...
I'm sorry to have missed this film at the Tribeca Festival, but hopefully it'll be in theaters soon: If a Harvard-trained evolutionary biologist makes a film about creationism's cousin, intelligent design, and calls it "Flock of Dodos," you know who he's talking about, right? Maybe not. The biologist, Randy Olson, accepts that there is no credible scientific challenge to the theory of evolution as an explanation for the diversity and complexity of life on earth. He agrees that intelligent design's embrace of a supernatural "agent" puts it outside the realm of science. But when he watches the advocates of...
Knowledge for Thirst, an endlessly fascinating blog of beverage taste tests, reviews everything wet. They sort out Mountain Dew Baja Blast: Mountain Dew is some crazy motherfuckers. Why would you create a ridiculously good soda and then basically hide it from the general public? They are really making a concerted effort towards market saturation these days, to mixed results. Mountain LiveWire is pretty terrible, I feel. Code Red is just OK. But Mountain Dew Baja Blast is freaking amazing and has shot to the top of my favorite sodas list. So why is their best flavor only available at...
Camouflage fashion has become so passe. It was great when Public Enemy did it. But Gwen Stefani? Let her eat MREs!. The opposite is much better: when fashion designers take over the military. (Thanks, Angelo)...
