As a longtime high rise dweller, I long ago gave up on croquet, gardening, and lawn darts as recreation, but some substitute needed to be found, so I spent many years experimenting. Binoculars gave way to telescopes, and for a time I was quite adept at picking off annoying pigeons with a slingshot (a large [...]
Reading the New York Times with unusual thoroughness over the holiday weekend, I found myself annoyed, and a little embarrassed, that so much of it was, well, garbage. Worse, it was garbage of the most common and insulting sort: fawning, shallow interviews, dubious, poorly-sourced claims presented as fact, “balance” in the form of risibly false [...]