I like to be well dressed, but…

Women’s Wear Daily reports:
Ports 1961 has struck a deal with NBC Universal to dress four female commentators for NBC, MSNBC, CNBC and USA Network during the Games, which take place Aug. 8 to 24.
So I know that Ports only has a womenswear division, but isn’t it, hmm, weird that only the female commentators are supposed [...]

my review of Red Cliff:

Good.

Action scenes are many and some times overly long.
Some of the battle formations are well-loved Chinese tales. They may seem very weird to those not familiar with the stories.
Many historical inaccuracies, as reported by movie critics.
The one historical inaccuracy I noted was that in the film, Zhu Ge Liang is younger than Zhou Yu. But since [...]

at the Hong Kong airport (my total travel time is just shy of 48 hours).

It’s refreshing to finally be in a place where my height is considered average, for once. Except for the stray Caucasian visitor, of course. But then I realized that everywhere I turned, the advertisements seemed to place me in New York City, not Hong Kong. They feature white models. Of course, I thought at first, [...]

it’s “it’s,” not “its”

sorry, Google:

Although as a reflection of society – more people must enter in “its” to cause Google to attempt to fix my “it’s” – I’m not sure whether this indicates that Google users have bad grammar or whether Google users are just extraordinarily lazy and don’t want to type that extra apostrophe. Probably both.

substitutions aren’t necessarily a good thing.

I was reading old blog posts from Greg Mankiw when I stumbled on this one:
Todd D. Kendall, an economist at Clemson University, reports that more pornography leads to less rape:
The arrival of the internet caused a large decline in both the pecuniary and non-pecuniary costs of accessing pornography. Using state-level panel data from 1998-2003, I [...]

fugues aren’t just for music.

Death Fugue

Paul Celan, translated from German by Michael Hamburger
Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown
we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it at night
we drink and we drink it
we dig a grave in the breezes there one lies unconfined
A man lives in the house he plays with the serpents he [...]

I just made up a simple rule-of-thumb.

It addresses the truth that women’s bodies are held to be within the public domain: Guys, if what you do to a female would be construed as “gay” if done to a male, it’s not appropriate. And the same holds true for gals going through the same motions.
Note: I am not endorsing homophobia in any [...]