| June |
Vile bezonians — Election downside — Young Adult fiction — Boots, boots,
boots … — Driving out demons — Misogoneist — The Irish Washerwoman — Math
corner |
| May |
Raza Studies — Russian noses — Cougars — Reading list — Math corner |
| April |
Atrocity of the month — Bowling for votes — Your baby has gone down the plughole — Halfway to disintegration — Picky, picky — Math corner |
| March |
Obama fatigue — The Typhoid Marys of socialism — Bawdier connotations — Long Walk exploded — The Tibetans they trust — We Give Our Hearts to Dogs to Tear — Missing Boris moments (1) — Missing Boris moments (2) — Big fat English wedding — Talk of the islands — Gratitude — Math corner |
| February |
Bill Buckley — The crack tax — Decline of stuff — Finding racism — Eat bugs for peace — Lottery winners — Healthcare options — Online diagnostics — Memory lane — Dem bones — Math corner |
| January |
Campaign onomastics — Sobriquets — Corpse caper — Social Mensuration — Conan Doyle — Dry thunder, no rain — The dog up and died — Math corner |
| December |
Interesting times — Interesting places — COBOL memories — Standards of honesty — Eco-friendly banking — The company of women — Harvesting wasted time — That was the year that was — Math corner |
| November |
No more n-words — Early drop-out — Food plan — Life's a what? — No-test IQ estimation — Reality check — Loneliness of the late-night Gentile — Nightmare on 21st Street — Fundamentalism lite — Dream time — Math corner |
| October |
The James Watson flap — Driver's licenses for illegals — BET celebrates "beat-down" perps — the Chinatown bus — Rudy! Rudy? — an infinite series |
| September |
Conceptual art — "-phobia" and "miso-" — Whack-Muslim movies — How's the website coming? — Republicans say the darnedest things — Might we win? — O'Reilly goes to Harlem — Speed of light (cont.) — Greenspan on Nixon — Khrushchev on Khrushchev — Giselle — Missed cue on I.D. — Intelligence, athleticism, criminality — Kingdom of Heaven... where? — Math humor |
| August |
Back to school — High School Confidential — Jim McGreevey's "dating" — Extraordinary sighting — Subprime — Pattie Boyd — Why cigarettes were popular — Death of a Tory — Nation wreckers — Wine in a box — Your brain on neuroscience — An I.D. prediction — Idiocy watch — Reader love — Faster than light — Math wordplay |
| July |
Hope v. cynicism in Iraq — Ulster at peace — Knitting — Reagan diaries — Goddess dethroned — Legislatures at war — Making a torus with tetrahedra |
| June |
Blair to Brown — The Alakaluf — Term limits — Skeet — Islamophobia — Bombs in London — I see you — Allergic to nuts — Kesler's "Iraq and the Neocons" — John the Savage — Foxed by a card trick — Six wasted years — 7/07/07 |
| May |
Status striving on immigration — Is the Middle East important? — Desert springs — Terry Major-Ball — Picture in the NYT — Not getting science — Not getting religion — Portugal & Portuguese — Shape of the universe |
| April |
April is the verpfuscht-est month — My days are numbered — Power of the primes — Lawn guy — Losing friends and embarrassing people — Lost in Manhattan — Perils of a primzahlfrei month — Mad about Mad — Everybody wants to come to America — Getting mega-rich via math |
| March |
Secular Muslims — Worst FUBAR of all time? — Magic Flute verse précis — Elton in the cathedral — Hell is real, says Pope — A little bit of China in New York — At least our countrymen — Zimbabwe and the obvious — Opening line of the month — Everlasting socks — Irish math |
| February |
Judy, Judi, Judee — Build a nuke, get stuff — Sullivan-Harris exchanges — Pro-choice Catholics — Danny's red belt — Dealing with Hypothesis solvers — Oh, Kolkota! — Best job for a writer — Frankie Laine — Math sculpture |
| January |
Border agents — Bleak House — March of complexity — Fiscal black hole — Where's Mohammed? — Ultimate death poet — Tuosituoyefusiji and Jici |
| December |
Christmas concert — Muddling through — Market for epics — Bring back... — Year of... — Threepenny bits — Syllabub — 200 Years to Christmas — Heavenly Estonia — Kitzmiller, one year on — Bush & the border — Domingo in The First Emperor — My Christmas jigsaw puzzle — What's interesting about 2007? |
| November |
Fools for Iraq — Realism revisited — Borat and Jewish folk memory — Immigration sentimentalists vs. number-crunchers — Jeet Kun Do — Black cops in black neighborhoods? — Girdle the Earth with silver |
| October |
Kerry's joke — "Chickenhawk" re-re-revisited — Joke Botchers Anonymous — Snobbery 101 — The Bush disaster — Does faith make stuff happen? — Atheist Civ. — Neal Stephenson-a-thon in progress — Not your father's Islam — Accommodating Muslims — U.K. driving test... not for immigrants — 100 coins for $5 |
| September |
"Islamo-fascist"? — Tom Wolfe praises Jim Webb — Why airlines issue yellow lifejackets — My psychoanalysis — Poul Anderson's Brainwave — Talking across the IQ gap — Zones of commitment — Math Olympiad Zoroastrian? — Literary duellists in old London — The last white war, the next civilizational one — Prisoner box problem |
| August |
Conservatives teaching Social Studies — DVD stinks — Ill fares the land... — PC in the Rockies — Rocky Mountain flora — Lefties on the hiking trails — Race and the National Parks — A ghost town — Deja vu in ghost town hotel — Location, location — Cylindrical projection puzzle |
| July |
Mel & the schoolmarms — Will he lunch in Hollywood again? — The real Mideast threat — Weasel words from W — Walmart a paper tiger? — Heat in the attic — TUB MA BEATS RAP — The real antisemites — UN scolds on Katrina — The dying middle class — Infantilizing women... — And black people — Answering Bill — Houyhnhnms & Ptthmllnsprts — Russell as a mathematician |
| June |
Not a W fan — Potemra on gracilization — "Gentlemen, when the barrage lifts" — Kid books — Words, words, words — The perfect footwear — Stamping out evil — A bolt-hole in Asia — Math in The Simpsons |
| May |
Blogging from Everest? I'm up for it — Plame's claim to fame — Big fat Sikh wedding — Kronicul of Hiyer Edukashun — 5-1-5 — Clueless on pop culture — Omnipotence — ChiComs block Wiki — Freud's number |
| April |
Fool me thrice on immigration "reform" — Sam Beckett, hyper-Anglo-Saxon — Is the Big Mick imploding? — Why 19,766? |
| March |
A fritillary? — The Million Browns March — My office space — Yes, global warming is real — Coppélia — Sudden death? — Naughty teachers — Pi Day |
| February |
A Khrushchev anniversary — SD fights for intellectual diversity — Larry Summers quits — An evangelical takes on postmodernism — The Singularity is Near — A piece not posted — A Kermitian exchange on the ski lift — Re-watching Grease — Lazy Math Corner |
| January |
Youth & age — Jeunesse &... — Vieillesse — SawStop — Noveling (cont.) — Teaching, west coast vs. east — The Derbs' 1st vidcam — Brit. Hist. book recommendation — Redirecting I.D. email — Zay-duh, zee-ta — Man on ball on pole |
| December |
Lost a molar & fingertip — Center for Defense Cynicism — Apology of the month — Saudi America — Blogs fade — Death penalty — C.S. Lewis the crank — Paperwork — Pairwise products |
| November |
Northeast Asia heating up? — Enviro-catastrophe in Manchuria — Narnia — Jennifer's bristols — Loony right drops Jew Thing — Israel walls in — In memoriam Bruce Lee — Losing the Bible — Math talk — Never mind scores, gimme a sigma |
| October |
Giving a hoot about Libby-Plame-Wilson-Rove — Mandarin games — The October Country — Now We Are Sixty — Horrible Histories — Excluding included excluders — The Kitzmiller trial — Alphabetizing primes |
| September |
Laws against hate — Not a Tory war — W lost me — Breakfast with Derb — I up and made some bloopers — If it harelips the Pope — Cheer for the Old Left — David Belinski, gent — A few of my favorite things — Off message on modernism & race — A racist track fire — Babushki puzzle |
| August |
Cutting a ms. down to size — The dishonesty of I.D. — I.D.=Po-Mo — Alaskan humor — Blockbuster restocks — Bishop on the carpet — Iraq's constitution — The butcher's bill — Chicken nuggets brainteaser |
| July |
Irresponsible general wanted — Abusing episcopal authority — Tristan da Cunha — Genetics of Britain — 7/7, 9/11, 6-4,... — Judge Roberts too nice — Nellie checks in to Hilbert's Hotel — Chords of a parabola |
| June |
Scruton on Sartre — Shuttle to nowhere — Brits to Turkey — Curses for spyware — Sears' last lawnmower? — Birkhoff & the Jews — Bowling scores brainteaser |
| May |
Stem cells — Reductio ad servitum — Knife control — The UK's most successful politician — Delivery of a ms. — Verpfuscht — Race-based education — A mysterious triangle |
| April |
Holding paper — Caesar's bath — Flunking history — The law should leave us alone — Jobs we won't do? — Mice in neurology lab — Great letters — Not a hate crime — Immigration to Britain 100 years ago — Joys of computation |
| March |
I am Terri Schiavo — Derbyshitler — Computers in school — White rabbits! — The ould cause — Sudoku |
| February |
Scientists libertarian? — Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — Larry Summers — The "hard" consciousness problem — The spirit of science — Looking at Nellie — Lunch with the Bynums — A calculus oddity |
| January |
War mentality — The Larry Summers flap — Posner on probability — Canterbury on the tsunami — Maggy & the bishop — How old was Diophantus? |
| December |
Back to Gin Lane — Illegal immigration a safety valve — Bullying Taiwan — Partying with The New Criterion — Möbius's hankie — Mary Renault — Hanging out at the mall — Cuneiform — Hilbert's Königsberg address — Prime Obsession thanks — What's interesting about 2005? |
| November |
The perils of parody — Trial lawyers & toothpicks — Armenicide — Aworldliness — Whopper of the month — So long, Yasser — Triangle pairs sequence |
| October |
First vote for a president — Brits love Kerry... — ...& power tools — Bring in African missionaries — Lowlife Derb — French labor laws — An Australian historian — Woods weds — Academic idiots — Borjas story — Geeks for Derb — Innuendo — Neighboring powers |
| September |
No-go areas — Kerry vs. Norks — Forged credentialism — Marbles too dangerous — Curzon's lighter amenities — Shi Mo — Men & women different! — First digit of 2N |
| August |
Privatize Yosemite! — Invasion of the language-snatchers — Shine upon the Aral Sea — Encounter in Permetyab — Affirmative action music — Stereotypes in running — Keeping the blacks down — MCMXIV — Inscribed polygons |
| July |
Political Viagra wanted — Nork nightmare — An American defector leaves NK — Breaker Morant — Hitchhiking through Romania — Ethnic pride for white gals? — Lefty newspaper cheats on circulation — The gay flavor — Jimmy Neutron reads Prime Obsession — Nature-nurture cop-out |
| June |
Win war, lose election — Smacking the TV — "Moslem" or "Muslim"? — Don't mention Islam in France — Bob Dylan a poet? — Sir John Moore parody — The academic archipelago — The Teaching Company — Billy Liar — Kittikachorn & I don't care — Johnson on the writer's mind (again) — Math teaching then & now |
| May |
Happy warmonger — Combat gals — RIP Melvin Lasky — Sir John Moore — From Yao to Mao — Residential segregation — Try cheating an Armenian — World's highest concavity index |
| April |
East Asian strings — Bland envelopes — Everything is equal — Zuo's Chronicle — No other stain — Diffugere nives — Daffodils — London in flames! — "This sentence has …" |
| March |
Gerald Amirault — Unstable under reflection — Reading Scruton — Decline of the American terrorist — A word for gay marriage — FDR was queer and gay — Free trade? — Call Me Madam released on DVD — Asteroid strike — Left behind — Me & the Gray Lady — X years old in the year X2 |
| February |
They still like communism — Did Kim write Clementine? — Loneliness of conservatives — Keep the subjunctive alive! — Mel's problem — Awopbopaloobop alopbamboom — Little Richard's Christian virtue — I'm mediocre, I'm happy — The credentialist state — How many birthdays did Rossini have? — L'envoi |
| January |
Not an immigrant, a transplant — Saudi Arabianization — Good for immigrants — String Festival diversity — Draw! — Total pacifism in schools — A philoprogenitive movie — Face to face with 9/11 — The people with three names — Dyspraxia — Jay and Hank — Princess & pea — Homo homini lupus est — Posthumous pardons — Collatz Problem |
| December |
225,961 words this year — Be of good cheer — Punctuation — The greatest century — 100 years of flight — Episcopopoly — The gladness of early Greece — Illegal immigration — Nursing — The power of words — Christmas parcel brainteaser |
| November |
Not conservative, reactionary — The Bruce Lee biopic — Heartburn — Explaining Ireland — Operatic dislikes — Georgia — Deeper into Hankomania — Roll tide! — 11-22-1963 — Coming to America — Cause of Haiti's misery — Chinese Japanophiles — 9M + 16N |
| October |
Banned from campus — Derb, opera critic — Reductio ad Hitlerum — Will airline travel go extinct? — The peasant poet — Rooftop story — Hankomania — Find the logic flaw |
| September |
My country, 'tis of she — Claudius revokes citizenship — Encounter with Miss America — A California conservative — Jan Morris on pessimism — A fashionable V.D. — The politician point — The Left and Kissinger — Colin Walters, R.I.P. — The case for Hillary — Smullyan problem |
| August |
Why California is bust — Spats — Face to face with the Antichrist — PJ's nuclear nightmare — Pretty but not sexy — The great parents-childless divide — When Dos Passos met Orwell — Orwell on Hopkins — How old was Tom Sawyer? — 0.577215664901532860606512... — Two 6-letter words |
| July |
"Social liberal, fiscal conservative" oxymoron — Watching the Mets — Everybody must be equal — Life must be filled up — Nothing unusual, nothing strange — Getting opera — Blacks don't suicide, Asians don't get AIDS — Kiddie drama show — Michael Wharton's Aztecs — Product & sum |
| June |
Die in dark, buried in rain — O'Reilly hits one — A second 9/11 — Andrew Roberts' hate mail — What Danny likes about Dad — Making money writing books — Soldiering, job Americans won't do? — When the what go marching in? — JFK's headaches — BURMA, BATH, LEEDS — Stiff competition — Muggeridge quip — What is truth? — Death worship — Barbara, Celarent, Darii, Ferioque — Pop-math book recommendations |
| May |
Gambling — Laci Peterson case — Poverty and conservatism — Captain Underpants (cont.) — Chimps & us — Dictionaries and the writer — What's wrong with philosemitism? — Selling sheep |
| April |
Devil's Dictionary — Actuarial humor — Family humor (cont.) — What color is your underwear? — Proud parent (of book) — Internet dropouts — Elvis in Latin — Fay ce que voudres — Human Rights Campaign — More Hungarophilia — Income taxes, grrrr — Numerators without denominators |
| March |
Slice of crow pie — American innocence — Muggeridge on Orwell — Agendum, agenda — Family humor — Derb in the movies — Clever headlines — "This Be the Converse" — The Big Bang — Losing touch with UK politics — On hold with a telemarketer — Difference between men & women — Who lost China? — Means-testing free lunches — What did he buy? |
| February |
Rebuilding the WTC — Awful song lyrics — Conscience of the young — Dealing with burglars — Underperformin' Norman again — Great opening lines — Deporting tragic illegals — PC indexing — Unearthing family past — Dog & lighthouse |
| January |
Traveling, Houston & DC — An egregious lefty — Amtrak to DC — White collar jobs down the tubes — Blind people online — Aborigines & us — Noble savage alive & well — Psycho Dad — Groundhog Day — Math meets race — Great pop lyrics — Math & politics — How old are your children? |
| December |
The trend line test — Nutso North Korea — Year-end Economist — Preteen usage of "gay" — First lines in Chinese Lit. — The prevailing structure of taboos — Poems in mind — Anti-anti-Islam — In the prime of life — Conference brainteaser |
| November |
The ducks are trying to kill us — Asian school success explained — Spouting, spewing, spritzing — Sidewalk nail — Religious discrimination in Ireland — Perils of googling — Captain Underpants — Ivy Mike — Chatting to China — Hardships of China's middle class — Standing Committee clones — Don't know much theology — White rabbits! — Monkeys & doors |
| October |
The beltway snipers are what? — Criminalizing but not defining — Amiri Baraka's sources — Resisting Pinker's metaphysics — Baq'aq'i mq'aq'e c'q'alši q'iq'inebs — Michelle's Invasion — The b-word — Hating the Peace — Telephone solicitors vanquished — Johnson on a writer's mind — Hockey tournament puzzle |
| September |
Child abuse? Pah! — A pot — Saying grace — Why aren't I a hate speaker? — Niggardly history — China e-lobby — Betjeman's "Norfolk" — KBO-ing on 9/11 — Chebyshev's bias |
| August |
Smoking saves a life — Swimming Heaven Pool — Is you is or is you ain't Mugabe? — Turkish delight — Blair blooper — Where politics is everything — Cads & dads (cont.) — First things — How's the book? — Rou bao tie — The Monkey's Mother |
| July |
Cuomo & the KKK — The crybaby Left — Derb, financial wizard — Cads & dads — A Falun Gong grass widow — The Great War fades away — Hope for Iran? — Computer bleg |
| June |
Spanish salutitorial — The scholar's Britannica — Was Geronimo a barbarian? — Manhattan Stonehenge (cont.) — A Nazi mathematician — Talking to Iceland — Dissing states — Bookish presidents — Knock and it shall be clopened... |
| May |
Wrestling with phone companies — Up the Sexual Revolution — Crazy settlers? — Manhattan Stonehenge — Perfection in song — Telegraph Rorschach test — Is Chinese school a good idea? — Mathematical correctness at Columbia |
| April |
Capitalist verse — Rhymes for "God" — INS morale — Stuff from the Bunny — The first "real casualty" — Less is fewer — Hungarophilia — Pig Latin Bible — Hazard chase — Bootleg Call Me Madam |
| March |
Virgins and generals — Asymmetry in politics — Oscar party pooper — Fractious family — Are Arab Christians antisemitic? — Defining Spring — Do condoms spread STDs? — Historians & poetry — Loyalist terror — Hegelian readers — Auden's Hegelian clerihew |
| February 22 |
Torture vs. execution — Dactylic ditties — China booklist — Gun safety demo? — Compulsive reading — Fo'c'sle or poop? — Mike Tyson speaks |
| February 19 |
Underperformin' Norman — Pet cloning — Who are the fools? — The IRA's defenders — Patriot's Day — Pastor anxiety — Mispronouncing "Fuchs" |
| January 23 |
Blogging monthly — Fred on freedom of speech — Beautiful on TV — — In the zone — Translating Russian — — Dim bulb librarians — American Renaissance — — Chinese delivery man shoots thug — Math & longevity |
