Category Archives: Current Events

Crescent shadows, beams of light, and the Sun seen over my shoulder: A collection of solar eclipse photos from a sidewalk in Brooklyn Heights.

I question New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ describing his city as “the Port-Au-Prince of America” from a political branding perspective.

While I am very much in the pro-video game ownership side of things, I had to call foul on a headline taking a seemingly anti-ownership quote by a Ubisoft executive out of its original context.

A short report on reports about the temporary closure of the Carroll Gardens Library with original photographs.

Inspired by a series of recent blog posts, I offer a proposed set of best practices for media review scoring systems.

Justin of our Justin and Justina duo looks behind a particularly inane protest to wonder what happened to that Ronald McDonald guy.

A humorous and ultimately borderless search for the long sought-after “libertarian moment.”

The statements of the Russian and Chinese governments on the Israel-Hamas War would be ironic if they were not entirely expected.

Wherein I use a particularly questionable “experts say” headline on a piece trying to justify Hamas’ behavior to question the “experts say” headlines.

I say what the reports left implicit about the fact that two fraudsters created 25 convincing Basquiat forgeries with nothing more than cardboard and a few minutes of painting.

When even the family of the Colombo consigliere cannot log off.

I offer my critique of the decision of big, multinational banks to allow people to camp out in ATM vestibules.