Restating the Obvious

Skewered
  Posted: Sun, September 7, 2008 @ 2:21PM

Too big to crash?
  Posted: Sun, September 7, 2008 @ 0:52AM

Iced
  Posted: Sat, September 6, 2008 @ 6:46PM

Disaggregation
  Posted: Sat, September 6, 2008 @ 12:23PM

Book Review XVIII: Gobi: Tracking the Desert
  Posted: Fri, September 5, 2008 @ 9:45PM

B.O., phone home
  Posted: Thu, September 4, 2008 @ 10:50PM

Over a barrel
  Posted: Thu, September 4, 2008 @ 4:26PM

Insouciance . . .
  Posted: Thu, September 4, 2008 @ 12:54PM

Book Review XVII: The Night Is Large
  Posted: Thu, September 4, 2008 @ 2:47AM

Arrest all aliens!
  Posted: Wed, September 3, 2008 @ 4:54PM

Watchful waiting
  Posted: Tue, September 2, 2008 @ 4:51PM

Washouts
  Posted: Mon, September 1, 2008 @ 9:16PM

Labor ode
  Posted: Mon, September 1, 2008 @ 2:41PM

The Kestner rule
  Posted: Mon, September 1, 2008 @ 12:45PM

Rewriting history
  Posted: Sun, August 31, 2008 @ 11:41PM

Book Review XVI: Islam in History
  Posted: Sun, August 31, 2008 @ 4:35PM

Splintered bats
  Posted: Sat, August 30, 2008 @ 11:53PM

Field trials
  Posted: Sat, August 30, 2008 @ 6:58PM

Avoid the candles
  Posted: Sat, August 30, 2008 @ 4:51AM

Southern exposure
  Posted: Sat, August 30, 2008 @ 4:32AM

Sigh
  Posted: Fri, August 29, 2008 @ 2:18PM

Green River
  Posted: Wed, August 27, 2008 @ 8:42PM

That's not a mosque
  Posted: Wed, August 27, 2008 @ 7:00PM

Hosed
  Posted: Wed, August 27, 2008 @ 6:42PM

Reality checks are in the mail
  Posted: Wed, August 27, 2008 @ 2:39PM

Told you so
  Posted: Tue, August 26, 2008 @ 10:53PM

Can I get me some truth?
  Posted: Tue, August 26, 2008 @ 10:32PM

If Green Bay can't be green . . .
  Posted: Tue, August 26, 2008 @ 1:59PM

The (roughly) $74 question
  Posted: Tue, August 26, 2008 @ 2:11AM

Get the bag and bag it
  Posted: Mon, August 25, 2008 @ 5:07PM

Stop the presses!
  Posted: Sun, August 24, 2008 @ 11:10PM

Gunboat diplomacy
  Posted: Sun, August 24, 2008 @ 4:24PM

We'd all like to forget the '70s
  Posted: Sat, August 23, 2008 @ 3:18PM

Book review XV: The Knife Man
  Posted: Sat, August 23, 2008 @ 1:22AM

Faith-based government
  Posted: Fri, August 22, 2008 @ 1:28PM

Unfree speech
  Posted: Tue, August 19, 2008 @ 2:06PM

The inscrutable West
  Posted: Tue, August 19, 2008 @ 1:08PM

Freedom Rider
  Posted: Mon, August 18, 2008 @ 2:35PM

The perceptibility problem
  Posted: Sun, August 17, 2008 @ 5:57PM

Down with Neoplatonism
  Posted: Sun, August 17, 2008 @ 2:47PM

More climate funnies
  Posted: Sun, August 17, 2008 @ 1:40PM

The wrong island
  Posted: Sat, August 16, 2008 @ 8:12PM

T.R. reads the papers
  Posted: Sat, August 16, 2008 @ 7:58PM

She never inhaled, though
  Posted: Sat, August 16, 2008 @ 3:10PM

Bizarro Olympics
  Posted: Sat, August 16, 2008 @ 2:52PM

Magical mystery tour
  Posted: Fri, August 15, 2008 @ 11:39PM

Name that regime
  Posted: Mon, August 11, 2008 @ 2:44PM

She's semisexual, you know
  Posted: Mon, August 11, 2008 @ 1:19AM

Eavesdropping
  Posted: Sun, August 10, 2008 @ 2:25PM

Fallen forests
  Posted: Sun, August 10, 2008 @ 2:15PM

Book Review XIV: The Stilwell Papers
  Posted: Sun, August 10, 2008 @ 3:38AM

A toast
  Posted: Fri, August 8, 2008 @ 1:55PM

Book Review XIII: But is It Science?
  Posted: Thu, August 7, 2008 @ 5:31PM

Pumped up
  Posted: Thu, August 7, 2008 @ 2:09PM

A great day for the Chinese, Koreans etc.
  Posted: Wed, August 6, 2008 @ 1:49PM

Bizarre doin's in the backyard
  Posted: Wed, August 6, 2008 @ 3:27AM

Book Review XII: Within the Whirlwind
  Posted: Sun, August 3, 2008 @ 8:51PM

Book Review XI: Righting the Mother Tongue
  Posted: Sun, August 3, 2008 @ 2:23PM

A Zimbabwean solution
  Posted: Sun, August 3, 2008 @ 0:12AM

Core values
  Posted: Tue, July 29, 2008 @ 2:26PM

Book review X: Prisoners of the Japanese
  Posted: Sun, July 27, 2008 @ 10:44PM

Everybody's out of step but Hansen
  Posted: Sun, July 27, 2008 @ 2:27PM

Friend of the Hawaiians
  Posted: Sun, July 27, 2008 @ 2:14PM

Some days you eat the bear . . .
  Posted: Sun, July 27, 2008 @ 5:08AM

Review IX: Unholy Business
  Posted: Sun, July 27, 2008 @ 4:43AM

The Cole Porter Stomp
  Posted: Sat, July 26, 2008 @ 3:35PM

Review VIII: Wedding of the Waters
  Posted: Fri, July 25, 2008 @ 9:08PM

About that ML&P story
  Posted: Fri, July 25, 2008 @ 3:56AM

Can you hear me now?
  Posted: Thu, July 24, 2008 @ 7:32PM

Too weird to ignore
  Posted: Wed, July 23, 2008 @ 7:26PM

Small enough to fail
  Posted: Wed, July 23, 2008 @ 2:06PM

Withdrawal pangs
  Posted: Tue, July 22, 2008 @ 9:13PM

Con Con-Con, I think
  Posted: Tue, July 22, 2008 @ 3:46PM

Just a little off the top
  Posted: Mon, July 21, 2008 @ 1:58PM

North to Alaska
  Posted: Mon, July 21, 2008 @ 1:51PM

Life imitates art . . .
  Posted: Sun, July 20, 2008 @ 2:51PM

Minkowski's revenge
  Posted: Sun, July 20, 2008 @ 1:41PM

Going with the floe
  Posted: Sat, July 19, 2008 @ 1:19AM

Easy to be green sometimes
  Posted: Fri, July 18, 2008 @ 1:49PM

Holy Wisdom
  Posted: Fri, July 18, 2008 @ 0:22AM

Drill, ye tarriers, drill!
  Posted: Wed, July 16, 2008 @ 6:52PM

Wicked cool wahine
  Posted: Wed, July 16, 2008 @ 6:13PM

Profits and losses
  Posted: Wed, July 16, 2008 @ 4:04PM

Review VII: The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir
  Posted: Tue, July 15, 2008 @ 2:37AM

Review VI: Revel, Riot and Rebellion
  Posted: Sun, July 13, 2008 @ 6:16AM

A fine mess
  Posted: Sat, July 12, 2008 @ 1:13PM

Driest summer since 1991
  Posted: Fri, July 11, 2008 @ 4:27PM

A word to the unwise
  Posted: Fri, July 11, 2008 @ 3:09PM

Back to basic(s)
  Posted: Tue, July 8, 2008 @ 7:48PM

And another one bites the dust
  Posted: Tue, July 8, 2008 @ 2:11PM

Review V: A Conspiracy So Immense
  Posted: Tue, July 8, 2008 @ 4:42AM

Not only the cows are mad
  Posted: Mon, July 7, 2008 @ 2:34AM

Point of honor
  Posted: Sun, July 6, 2008 @ 6:19PM

The shame of The New York Times
  Posted: Sun, July 6, 2008 @ 0:27AM

The Ray Charles Effect
  Posted: Sat, July 5, 2008 @ 2:07PM

Review IV: Masters of Death
  Posted: Sat, July 5, 2008 @ 1:41AM

Pickin' and grinnin'
  Posted: Fri, July 4, 2008 @ 6:24PM

Politics
  Posted: Fri, July 4, 2008 @ 2:15PM

The emperor's fashion show
  Posted: Thu, July 3, 2008 @ 1:33PM

A plaque on all your houses
  Posted: Tue, July 1, 2008 @ 0:29AM

The right of Americans . . .
  Posted: Thu, June 26, 2008 @ 11:26PM

A consumer society
  Posted: Thu, June 26, 2008 @ 1:43PM

MINN. MAN JUMPS SHARK!
  Posted: Thu, June 26, 2008 @ 1:57AM

Petroloonies
  Posted: Wed, June 25, 2008 @ 5:30PM

Living downwind
  Posted: Tue, June 24, 2008 @ 1:52PM

Shivering
  Posted: Mon, June 23, 2008 @ 2:46PM

Helminthology II
  Posted: Sat, June 21, 2008 @ 12:57PM

A trivial problem
  Posted: Fri, June 20, 2008 @ 9:29PM

Helminthology I
  Posted: Thu, June 19, 2008 @ 1:51PM

Mayhaw jelly and public policy
  Posted: Wed, June 18, 2008 @ 3:15PM

Another mission for Restating the Obvious
  Posted: Sun, June 15, 2008 @ 8:16PM

But I repeat myself
  Posted: Thu, June 12, 2008 @ 2:01PM

The Second Law at work
  Posted: Thu, June 12, 2008 @ 2:04AM

Language Notes II
  Posted: Wed, June 11, 2008 @ 4:19PM

97% of comedy is in the timing
  Posted: Tue, June 10, 2008 @ 9:08PM

Let them eat chicken
  Posted: Tue, June 10, 2008 @ 1:35PM

Stimulus package
  Posted: Tue, June 10, 2008 @ 3:50AM

Review III: The Prince of the Marshes
  Posted: Sun, June 8, 2008 @ 1:46PM

Language Notes I
  Posted: Sat, June 7, 2008 @ 1:58PM

Review II: Remaking the World
  Posted: Fri, June 6, 2008 @ 10:40PM

Well, well, well
  Posted: Thu, June 5, 2008 @ 2:19PM

Another downhill death
  Posted: Wed, June 4, 2008 @ 6:30PM

Vagrant Thought II
  Posted: Wed, June 4, 2008 @ 2:16PM

A little review
  Posted: Tue, June 3, 2008 @ 1:15AM

Flying the coop
  Posted: Sun, June 1, 2008 @ 11:35PM

Restating the very obvious
  Posted: Sun, June 1, 2008 @ 10:29PM

Now we'll see
  Posted: Thu, May 29, 2008 @ 3:47PM

The Late, Late Stone Age
  Posted: Thu, May 29, 2008 @ 0:54AM

The hotel-keeper's dream
  Posted: Wed, May 28, 2008 @ 7:55PM

Little silliness writ large
  Posted: Wed, May 28, 2008 @ 2:52AM

All the cute animals are dying!
  Posted: Sun, May 11, 2008 @ 11:00AM

Droppin out
  Posted: Wed, May 7, 2008 @ 12:14PM

Never trust travel writers . . .
  Posted: Wed, May 7, 2008 @ 11:26AM

Lent isn't over
  Posted: Sat, May 3, 2008 @ 3:45PM

Why bother?
  Posted: Fri, May 2, 2008 @ 3:20PM

The blue, blue Pacific
  Posted: Wed, April 30, 2008 @ 3:01AM

Vagrant thought
  Posted: Mon, April 28, 2008 @ 1:28PM

All my fault
  Posted: Mon, April 28, 2008 @ 2:40AM

This is funny . . .
  Posted: Thu, April 24, 2008 @ 2:00PM

Back home in Indiana
  Posted: Thu, April 24, 2008 @ 3:28AM

Mahalo, Morgaan Sinclair
  Posted: Wed, April 23, 2008 @ 0:42AM

Freeze frame
  Posted: Tue, April 22, 2008 @ 10:10PM

Deep thinking at Leland Stanford Jr. University
  Posted: Tue, April 22, 2008 @ 4:23PM

Alexander Graham Hell
  Posted: Tue, April 22, 2008 @ 3:51PM

World Un-Food Anti-Prize
  Posted: Mon, April 21, 2008 @ 2:21AM

Knowing which way the wind blows
  Posted: Thu, April 17, 2008 @ 2:24PM

The coral that refused to die
  Posted: Wed, April 16, 2008 @ 11:33PM

Pink collars
  Posted: Wed, April 16, 2008 @ 5:12PM

Alligator orthodontics
  Posted: Wed, April 16, 2008 @ 0:47AM

Something else to worry about
  Posted: Mon, April 14, 2008 @ 0:06AM

Stunts
  Posted: Sun, April 13, 2008 @ 9:03PM

Fasten seatbelts
  Posted: Sun, April 13, 2008 @ 10:45AM

Don't get around much any more
  Posted: Fri, April 11, 2008 @ 10:25PM

No mo' Aloha
  Posted: Fri, April 11, 2008 @ 4:16PM

The pressure's on
  Posted: Thu, April 10, 2008 @ 6:31PM

This shouldn't take long
  Posted: Wed, April 9, 2008 @ 3:13PM

He was lucky, all right
  Posted: Tue, April 8, 2008 @ 2:41PM

American idol
  Posted: Mon, April 7, 2008 @ 2:05PM

No soft landing
  Posted: Sun, April 6, 2008 @ 4:02PM

The fakin' it blues
  Posted: Thu, April 3, 2008 @ 2:34AM

Surf this! (Bring your wetsuit)
  Posted: Wed, April 2, 2008 @ 11:55PM

Will-o'-the-wisp
  Posted: Wed, April 2, 2008 @ 3:43PM

Are you with me, Dr. Woo?
  Posted: Tue, April 1, 2008 @ 2:01AM

Choke butterflies
  Posted: Sun, March 30, 2008 @ 2:56PM

Stating the obvious
  Posted: Fri, March 28, 2008 @ 8:50PM

No free lunch, even on Molokai
  Posted: Thu, March 27, 2008 @ 2:37PM

What took them so long?
  Posted: Wed, March 26, 2008 @ 2:11AM

Apply topically as needed
  Posted: Tue, March 25, 2008 @ 1:31AM

One-trick pony
  Posted: Sun, March 23, 2008 @ 1:54AM

Oh, well, back to the drawing board
  Posted: Thu, March 20, 2008 @ 1:56PM

Grandma got run over by a . . .
  Posted: Wed, March 19, 2008 @ 1:55AM

Hell-bound train
  Posted: Tue, March 18, 2008 @ 3:44PM

The Panic of '08
  Posted: Mon, March 17, 2008 @ 2:54PM

Paia was awfully quiet Saturday
  Posted: Sun, March 16, 2008 @ 1:21PM

Spittin' images
  Posted: Tue, March 11, 2008 @ 9:05PM

Homeopathic public health
  Posted: Mon, March 10, 2008 @ 9:08PM

The real threat of globalization
  Posted: Mon, March 10, 2008 @ 0:45AM

Is there anybody more tiresome than the food police?
  Posted: Fri, March 7, 2008 @ 1:51PM

Thank goodness somebody is worrying about this
  Posted: Wed, March 5, 2008 @ 7:54PM

Delayed karma's going to get you, Bill
  Posted: Wed, March 5, 2008 @ 7:38PM

Move along folks, nothing to see, move along
  Posted: Tue, March 4, 2008 @ 2:19PM

Switch hitters
  Posted: Sun, March 2, 2008 @ 6:22PM

The last word
  Posted: Wed, February 27, 2008 @ 3:25PM

Oscar who?
  Posted: Sun, February 24, 2008 @ 2:42PM

Downhill all the way
  Posted: Sun, February 17, 2008 @ 12:50PM

Examination of conscience
  Posted: Sat, February 16, 2008 @ 11:17PM

Who loves ya, baby?
  Posted: Fri, February 15, 2008 @ 9:44PM

A bucket of last week's smelt
  Posted: Wed, February 13, 2008 @ 7:13PM

In blog space, nobody can hear you cough
  Posted: Wed, February 13, 2008 @ 1:34PM

What happened to the Genial Hawaiians?
  Posted: Tue, February 12, 2008 @ 8:33PM

Sickness and death
  Posted: Sat, February 9, 2008 @ 10:34PM

Big Mo v. Lunch
  Posted: Fri, February 8, 2008 @ 1:35PM

Po' boy, long way from home
  Posted: Thu, February 7, 2008 @ 4:13PM