That piece above aired on CBS Sunday Morning last week — it’s kind of half a profile of Bryan Cranston, post-Breaking Bad, playing LBJ and kind of half a profile of LBJ himself. At the end (the very end), there’s an interesting… Continue Reading
Americans lose their shit over cheap beer prices. If you ever meet someone from western New York state, they will — not a question of if, a question of when — tell you about Genny Cream Ale and how it’s something like… Continue Reading
Truth: the gun has played an incredibly important role in history. Truth: the AK-47 is, essentially, the most popular small arms weapon in world history. And a third truth: Mikhail Kalashnikov, the creator of said gun, passed away recently at… Continue Reading
Lot of stories about grade inflation recently — see here, here and here — so I’ll add one too. Last year, I took a graduate-level business course (the topic of the specific class was mostly micro-economics). The professor used three… Continue Reading