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What's New?
May 22, 2006 Posted an article, "Seattle in 1981: The Worldcon That Got Away", recounting my first World Science Fiction Convention bid.
March 11, 2006 For a long time, this site has been neglected in favor of blogging, as should be evident from the paucity of recent entries below. I am now working on refurbishments and updates.
May 29, 2005 Posted a review of Scott McCrea, The Case for Shakespeare: The End of the Authorship Controversy.
January 9, 2005 Added a letter of comment announcing a new French wargaming zine.
December 15, 2004 Added a letter of comment from Victor Reppert, author of C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea.
August 31, 2004 Posted updated biographies for the Pro Photo Gallery, including 65 new bios.
August 5, 2004 Added another letter of comment from an anti-Stratfordian.
July 25, 2004 Added photographs of Westercon 57.
July 22, 2004 Added a letter of comment on immigrants as soldiers.
July 4, 2004 Added a story, "Worse Than the Disease", about a life-extension technique with dreadful social consequences.
June 23, 2004 On the home page: Introducing Stromata Blog (Media Bias and Cash Balance Plans; Quick Explanation)
June 22, 2004 On the home page: A Senate candidate is pushed into the fire; The new terrorism numbers don't look much different from the old ones.
June 20, 2004 On the home page: Andrew Sullivan, George W. Bush and right-wing discontent
June 19, 2004 On the home page: Saddam and al-Qa'eda: not such a simple story
June 18, 2004 Added a letter of comment on Senator Kerry's patriotism.
June 15, 2004 On the home page: Theresa Heinz Kerry declares herself an airhead.
June 11, 2004 On the home page: Ronald Reagan and public diplomacy; What does multilateralism accomplish?
June 8, 2004 On the home page: John Kerry riddles (finely nuanced)
June 7, 2004 On the home page: Ronald Reagan, R.I.P.
June 4, 2004 On the home page: Welfare Reform in trouble; the Chalabi Affair: fourfold stupidity or something more sinister?
June 2, 2004 On the home page: A lesson for pollsters
June 1, 2004 On the home page: A forgotten prophecy
May 27, 2004 Added two letters of comment, on Shakespeare crank Joseph Sobran's dubious literary taste and the plight of Palestinian Christians.
May 26, 2004 Added reviews of the nominees for the Hugo Award for Best Novella. On the home page: Current angst over Iraq forms a new chapter in the history of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds.
May 20, 2004 On the home page: Vacation
May 18, 2004 On the home page: Headlines from a mirror world
May 17, 2004 On the home page: Evidence for my pet theory about Saddam's WMD
May 16, 2004 On the home page: Warping Abu Ghraib
May 15, 2004 On the home page: Oh, that liberal media, yet again.
May 10, 2004 On the home page: Abu Ghraib, succinctly.
May 8, 2004 On the home page: Senator Kerry's preferred peacekeepers "run like rabbits".
May 6, 2004 On the home page: Years of war, or decades? In six months, we'll decide.
May 4, 2004 On the home page: Why the Kerry family can afford to drive SUV's
May 2, 2004 Added "From Mapplethorpe to Oxenford", an account of how the National Endowment for the Arts uses tax money to spread nutty theories about the authorship of Shakespeare's plays.
April 30, 2004 On the home page: another Internet parlor game
April 29, 2004 On the home page: Distraction: the statistics; a time to "question patriotism".
April 26, 2004 Added a new Hunt Watch, in which Al Hunt waxes pessimistic about Iraq.
April 23, 2004 On the home page: The ordinary and the Bard.
April 20, 2004 On the home page: The Bush campaign fails to feed the hungry.
April 16, 2004 Added a new Hunt Watch, looking at Al Hunt's (not-too-bad) coverage of the Toomey-Specter primary race, and a Querulous Notes entry about a strange confluence of the legal profession and the Shakespeare authorship "controversy". On the home page: My 15 seconds of celebrity on BBC.
April 15, 2004 On the home page: The most frightening 9/11 Commission revelation yet has received almost no media coverage.
April 14, 2004 Added a new Hunt Watch, commenting briefly on Al Hunt's uninspired Vice Presidential musings.
April 13, 2004 On the home page: the Kerry plan for Iraq (beg for help, then run); anniversary of a disaster
April 12, 2004 Added a review of Fire & Movement #133, which marks a major change in editorial direction for one of wargaming's most venerable periodicals. On the home page: Welcome to visitors from Instapundit.
April 10, 2004 On the home page: Was the White House warned?
April 9, 2004 On the home page: Two months ahead of Easterbrook; Senator Kerry's Sister Souljah opportunity
April 8, 2004 On the home page: Condi Rice lays "Bush didn't care" to rest.
April 7, 2004 On the home page: Senator Kerry's fleeting moment of opportunity; Senate Democrats' role in 9/11 unpreparedness; 9/11's unhonored prophet
April 6, 2004 Added a new Hunt Watch, this one discussing Al Hunt's detection of a Bush "credibility canyon".
April 5, 2004 On the home page: "Tax cuts for the rich" increase their share of the income tax burden.
April 4, 2004 On the home page: A time to defy DST; National Employee Benefits Day and the case for freedom in health care.
April 1, 2004 On the home page: A 9-year-old Victorian lass enters the Shakespeare authorship "debate".
March 31, 2004 On the home page: Senator Kerry blends gaseous policy with conspiracy theorizing.
March 29, 2004 Added a new Hunt Watch, taking note of Al Hunt's passionate desire to be outraged by The Passion of the Christ. On the home page: Strange reporting of past and present from the imagination of Ellen Goodman.
March 24, 2004 On the home page: Dick Clarke's American grandstanding
March 23, 2004 On the home page: In response to terror, Westerners indulge in frivolous analysis.
March 22, 2004 On the home page: A new study demonstrates that progressive taxation really does discourage work.
March 21, 2004 The first Hunt Watch in a long time: Is George Bush more of a flip-flopper than John Kerry?
March 20, 2004 On the home page: The survival of Tanya Liu.
March 18, 2004 On the home page: Senator Corzine, have you no decency?
March 17, 2004 On the home page: John Kerry makes like Ross Perot.
March 16, 2004 On the home page: Another twist to the Kerry "foreign leader" tale; an elegy for lost Hispania
March 15, 2004 On the home page: Shakespeare on the ad pages; outsourcing as a source of U.S. jobs; Senator Kerry's betrayal of foreign leaders' confidences
March 14, 2004 As Instapundit bluntly puts it, "Terrorists have succeeded in toppling the Spanish government." My contribution to the gloom is on the home page.
March 13, 2004 On the home page, I wonder whether Europe will react to 3/11 with appeasement or a new commitment to the defeat of the common enemy.
March 12, 2004 On the home page, I wonder why John Kerry, advocate of "rejoining the community of nations", also advocates putting thousands of the citizens of those nations out of their jobs.
March 11, 2004 On the home page, I point to further evidence that former economist Paul Krugman's mind has unraveled, draw a moral (not a very obscure one) from today's atrocity in Madrid, note a 9/11 coincidence and ponder a complaint that immigrants work too hard.
March 9, 2004 On the home page, I look at Senator Kerry's (alleged) endorsement by "foreign leaders", note a suggested refinement to the Hatch version of the Federal Marriage Amendment and say a few words about whether the slow pace of job creation shows that the economic recovery is unreal.
March 4, 2004 On the home page, I comment on Senator Hatch's states' rights version of a Federal Marriage Amendment.
Added a letter of comment on my review of Shakespeare's Fingerprints by Michael Brame and Galina Popova.
February 23, 2004 Added some comments (not really a report) on this year's Boskone.
February 20, 2004 Corrected some garbles in the latest Querulous Notes and added a response from the writer of the criticized article.
February 15, 2004 Added an item to Querulous Notes on an anti-Stratfordian article in the usually respectable Weekly Standard.
February 8, 2004 Added "The Victims of George W. Bush", a review of two books that, for obvious reasons, never got written.
February 3, 2004 Added Part Five of my Stritmatter analysis, addressing the author's statistical claims.
January 20, 2004 Added Part Four of my analysis of Roger Stritmatter's dissertation "proving" that the 17th Earl of Oxford was the real "William Shakespeare", based on markings in a Bible that the earl once owned. This part looks at Dr. Stritmatter's literary argumentation.
January 5, 2004 Added a summary of the disbursement of Chicon 2000's surplus funds.
October 29, 2003 Added a letter of comment from an anti-Stratfordian anonym (followed by another the next day and yet another the day after).
October 22, 2003 Added a review of Monstrous Adversary: The Life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford by Alan H. Nelson.
October 19, 2003 Added an analysis of the Archbishop of Canterbury's lecture "Just War Revisited", which has been widely attacked in the blogosphere, not completely justly.
October 14, 2003 Added a new Hunt Watch, analyzing Al Hunt's view of the California recall election.
October 7, 2003 Added a new Hunt Watch. This one is as brief as the corresponding Al Hunt column is dull.
Added a letter of comment from the author of a new Oxfordian tome.
September 30, 2003
Added a new "Hunt Watch": Al Hunt tries to parlay trouble in Iraq into an argument for raising taxes.
September 23, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on Bill Clinton's candidate for President.
September 22, 2003
"Hunt Watch" returns with an analysis of Al Hunt's jeremiad against excessive compensation for Wall Street CEO's.
September 13, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on whether removing Yasser Arafat from power will lead to a Palestinian "explosion".
September 11, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on the conflict between the Americas of September 10th and September 11th.
September 9, 2003
Added two more batches of Torcon photos ([3] and [4]).
Added a letter of comment from a reader who believes the old anti-Stratfordian wheeze about William Shakespeare's lousy handwriting.
September 7, 2003
Added two sets ([1] and [2]) of Torcon photographs. More to come.
September 6, 2003
Added my report on Torcon 3, this year's World Science Fiction Convention.
September 1, 2003
Added the text of the captions to the SF Pro Photo Gallery, a collection of photograhs of science fiction authors, editors, artists and publishers that is displayed each year at the World Science Fiction Convention.
August 30, 2003
Added "Bah! Humbug!" by Robert Bloch to The Best of Fandom 1958.
August 29, 2003
Added "A Visit to Festus Pragnell" by C. S. Youd to The Best of Fandom 1958.
August 25, 2003
Added a short review of the latest issue of Vae Victis.
August 21, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on the controversy over cash balance pension plans.
August 13, 2003
This site's home page has undergone a major transformation. One effect is that, from now on, only major additions and subtractions will be recorded here. Lesser changes will be obvious from the home page entries.
Added an item to Ephemerides on a reported Democratic strategy for turning the California recall election to their own advantage. (I didn't say that it was a clever strategy.)
August 11, 2003
I should call this entry "What's Not New".  In case anyone besides my mother is wondering, the hiatus in new material on this site isn't the result of illness, computer problems, vacation, burnout or any of the other standard excuses. What's happened is that I took on a project for Torcon 3, this year's World Science Fiction Convention. It's a tiny nugget in the great gold mine of the Worldcon, but it's my nugget, it has to get finished, and there's more to it than I had anticipated. Posting will be back to normal when the task is nearer to completion.
July 24, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on the Gray Davis recall election and why no Republican should try to succeed him.
July 23, 2003
Added a short review of the latest issue of Strategy & Tactics.
July 19, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on the evidence that the Left hates Bush because it hates the war, not the other way around.
July 18, 2003
With the sort of regret that one always feels at such moments, I am dropping ERISA Whirled from this site. My employer objects to its presence, and, while I think that the objections are rather silly, the firm has in the past indulged my whims on matters of greater weight, so I feel that I ought to be equally accommodating.
July 11, 2003
Like everybody else, I have something to say about Niger, uranium and the State of the Union speech (Ephemerides).
July 9, 2003
Added a section on wargame magazines.
Added an item to Ephemerides summarizing what the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States will conclude, once it completes its investigation.
July 8, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on the President's "taunting" of Saddam Hussein's remaining supporters.
July 3, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on intervention in Liberia.
July 2, 2003
Added a new edition of ERISA Whirled.
June 29, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on the often overlooked semi-crisis in private pension plan funding.
Added an introductory case study on section 410(b) "nondiscrimination" testing (for those who are interested in pension plans rather than politics).
June 24, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on the Supreme Court's pair of "Affirmative Action" decisions.
June 23, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on the judicial crusade for same-sex marriage.
June 19, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on the first small signs of an Islamic Fifth Column in the United States.
June 16, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on how the "road map" laid out for Israel and the Palestinians could actually lead to peace.
June 8, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on the contemporay liberal view of America and how I intend to ignore it.
June 7, 2003
Added a new issue of ERISA Whirled.
June 2, 2003
Added a modest collection of Guest of Honor speeches and other texts from early World Science Fiction Conventions.
June 1, 2003
Added Nigel Lindsay's story "Ghod and Chlorophyll", which originally appeared in The Best of Fandom 1958.
May 26, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on Saddam Hussein's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, and why we may already have found them.
May 25, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on why a weak Europe makes the euro strong.
Added the results of another silly (but reassuring) Internet personality test.
May 24, 2003
Added comments on this year's nominees for the Best Novelette Hugo Award.
May 22, 2003
Posted a new issue of ERISA Whirled (dated 5/14/03, as it was finished just before I went on vacation - you'll have to wait till next issue for my take on the Boise-Cascade decision).
May 21, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on the impending, little known revolution in teh fundamental principles of American tax law.
Added comments on this year's nominees for the Best Short Story Hugo Award.
May 13, 2003
What's new? For the next week, not much. I'm off to my annual sojourn on the side of Mount Rainier, whither the World Wide Web has yet to be spun. Some time, I know, I'll arrive at Paradise Lodge to discover that the Glacier Bar has been turned into an Internet Lounge - but not this year. Since this site is an electronic lumber room rather than blog, I feel no unbearable lightness of posting, but do expect to have armloads of new timber as soon as I return.
May 10, 2003
Added clues to my real personality.
Added an item to Ephemerides on the contrast between the armed forces of Germany and Poland.
May 6, 2003
Added a review of Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900 by David A. Graff.
Added another update on the Baghdad Museum looting, which is turning out to be a hoax.
Added an item to Ephemerides on the possible role of school vouchers in damping Islamic extremism.
May 5, 2003
Just returned from Las Vegas and therefore well- prepared to add an item to Ephemerides on Bill Bennett's high rolling.
April 29, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on Senator Santorum's allegedly "dumb" statement about the homosexual rights case Lawrence v. Texas.
April 23, 2003
Added a review of Philip Sidney: A Double Life by Alan Stewart.
April 22, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on non-citizen soldiers.
April 21, 2003
Added reviews of Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove and Wolf Time by Lars Walker.
April 19, 2003
Added first thoughts about this year's Hugo Award nominations to Quark Watch.
April 17, 2003
Added another update on the Baghdad Museum situation.
Added an item to Ephemerides on France and Russia's despicable attempt to hold the Iraqi people hostage.
April 16, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on whether war with Syria lies in our near future.
April 15, 2003
Added an update to my lamentation over the looting of Mesopotamian antiquities, taking note of the evidence that the thefts were an inside job, possibly carried out well before the war reached Baghdad.
April 13, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on the parallels between the new anti-Americanism and the old antisemitism.
April 12, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on the tragic looting of the Baghdad Museum.
April 10, 2003
Added a new issue of ERISA Whirled.
April 1, 2003
Added further discussion to Ephemerides of the adequacy of our troop level in Iraq.
March 30, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on the alleged incompetence of American planning for the Iraqi campaign.
March 28, 2003
Added a new issue of ERISA Whirled.
March 23, 2003
Added a letter of comment following up on my item concerning Immanuel Wallerstein's hopeful vision of American decline.
March 22, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides with interim first thoughts about the Iraqi campaign.
March 19, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on the alleged failure of American diplomacy during the run-up to the Iraqi War.
March 16, 2003
Added an item to Quark Watch on disposing of surplus Worldcon funds.
March 15, 2003
Added an item to Querulous Notes on Justice John Paul Stevens' endorsement of a lunatic book on the Shakespeare authorship "controversy".
Added an item to Ephemerides on Bill Clinton's attempt to sound as fatuous as Jimmy Carter.
Updated the supplement to Pension Plan Terminations.
March 12, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on Franco-German attempts to tie down the American Gulliver.
March 11, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on what the future will be if Saddam survives.
March 10, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on Senator Kerry's insults to America's allies.
March 9, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on the post-Iraq future of the U.N.
March 4, 2003
Added a new Hunt Watch. This week Al Hunt admits that the Administration is right to go after Saddam Hussein but still finds reasons to complain about the way that it handles foreign policy.
March 2, 2003
Added a review of the alternate history novel A Children's War  by J. N. Stroyar, which portrays a 21st Century, Nazi-dominated Europe.
February 28, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on false memories of McCarthyism.
February 27, 2003
Added a new issue of ERISA Whirled.
February 26, 2003
Added the latest Hunt Watch, this time dealing with the Senate Democrats' unprecedented filibuster against Judge-nominee Miguel Estrada.
Added the results of another silly Internet quiz to Et Cetera.
February 22, 2003
Added a review of Shakespeare's Fingerprints by Michael Brame and Galina Popova.
February 19, 2003
Brought Hunt Watch up to date, this time examining Al Hunt's fears for the future of post-Saddam Iraq.
February 17, 2003
Added photographs of Boskone.
February 16, 2003
Added a report on Boskone 40, now back in Boston after a 16-year sojourn in outer Massachusetts.
Februay 15, 2003
Added further thoughts to Ephemerides on strategic directions for the new phase of the War on Terror.
February 14, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on the War on Terror after Saddam.
February 12, 2003
Added a new Hunt Watch, looking at Al Hunt's criticisms of the Bush Administration's budget proposals.
February 10, 2003
Added a review of The Kingdom of the Hittites and Life and Society in the Hittite World, both by Trevor Bryce.
February 9, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on the good and bad features of the Bush Administration's retirement savings proposals.
February 5, 2003
Added a new Hunt Watch, dissecting Al Hunt's dissection of the State of the Union message.
January 29, 2003
Added a new Hunt Watch: Al Hunt summons the cavalry to save "affirmative action".
Added the text of a letter signed by the Prime Ministers of Spain, Portugal, Italy, the U.K., Hungary, Poland and Denmark and the President of the Czech Republic supporting America's position in the confrontation with Iraq to Ephemerides.
January 25, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on the U.N. inspectors' claim that Saddam Hussein deserves a "B" for effort.
January 23, 2003
Added a new issue of ERISA Whirled.
January 20, 2003
Added a new Hunt Watch, expressing skepticism about Al Hunt's new line of "more hawk than thou".
Added an item to Ephemerides on liberals' deployment of bigotry to defend their notion of unbigoted public policy.
January 15, 2003
Added a new Hunt Watch, this one on Al's failure to notice the most significant fact about the new Senate.
January 14, 2003
Added a discussion of IRS Notice 2003-10 to the updates to Pension Plan Terminations.
Added a reader's insightful extension of my exegesis of Motion.
January 11, 2003
Added a deconstructive reading of Andrew Motion's anti-war quatrain to Ephemerides.
January 9, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on President Bush's plan to end double taxation of corporate profits, including a comment on how to fill a gap in the proposal.
January 8, 2003
Again playing catch-up, added two weeks of Hunt Watch: a critique of Al Hunt's year-end obits (12/26/02) and kudos for his report on Mayor Bloomberg's attempt to bring education to New York City public schools (1/3/03).
January 6, 2003
Added an item to Ephemerides on how greatly the shape of economic stimulus proposals has changed in the past year.
January 5, 2003
Added an item on the 2002 Fisk Award to Ephemerides.
Added comments on recent developments in the Shakespeare authorship "controversy" to Querulous Notes.
January 4, 2003
Added comments on the Archbishop of Canterbury's New Year's message to In hac lacrimarum valle.
December 31, 2002
Added my predictions for 2003 to Ephemerides.
December 26, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the Left's defense of Senator Patty Murray.
Added a new issue of ERISA Whirled.
December 25, 2002
Brought "Hunt Watch" up to date with comments on Al Hunt's banal analysis of the race for the 2004 Democratic Presidential nomination.
Added a brief Christmas note.
Does adding a long-overdue "Hunt Watch" count as a Christmas present for my readers? This time Al Hunt explains that the Bush Administration favors cutting taxes for "the rich" only because it is obsessed with courting popularity.
December 21, 2002
Added an item to Quark Watch on the status of the current Worldcon and NASFiC contests.
Added an item to Ephemerides on South Korea's pursuit of appeasement.
December 18, 2002
Added a very prompt letter of comment on the item noted just below.
Added a discussion of PBS's pseudo-documentary on the life of Mohammed to In hac lacrimarum valle.
December 17, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on Paul Krugman's latest conspiracy theory.
December 15, 2002
Enough Lott! Added an item to Ephemerides on Al Gore's long-term political strategy.
December 14, 2002
Added a revelation of my place in the Harry Potter universe to Et Cetera.
Added a new Hunt Watch (with apologies for being a week in arrears). This one discusses Mr. Hunt's criticism of Republican moderates for failing to be Democrats.
December 13, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on what Senator Lott doesn't understand.
December 11, 2002
Added, in light of the uproar over Senator Lott's endorsement of Thurmond in '48, an item to Ephemerides on what H. L. Mencken thought of the Dixiecrats.
December 6, 2002
Added a new issue of ERISA Whirled.
December 3, 2002
Added publications from The Eleventh World Science Fiction Convention (Philadelphia, 1953) to Artifacts of Fandom.
November 29, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on disturbing parallels between the late Roman and present American Republics.
November 24, 2002
Added a new "Hunt Watch", in which we review Al Hunt's post factum objections to the Department of Homeland Security.
November 20, 2002
Added items to Ephemerides on the alleged bin Laden tape and Tom Daschle's attempt to equate uncovering vote fraud with racism.
Added a pair of rather odd letters of comment.
November 19, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on Al Gore's politics of delusion and John O'Sullivan's political blind spot.
November 16, 2002
Added a pertinent Don Rumsfeld quote to Ephemerides.
Added a letter of comment on European attitudes toward the war on terror.
November 14, 2002
Added a new "Hunt Watch", examining Al Hunt's advice to the incoming House minority leader.
Restored the accidentally deleted essay, "The Only Two Ways to Fix Social Security".
November 13, 2002
Added some relections on political campaign strategy to Ephemerides.
November 11, 2002
After skipping a few weeks, added a new Hunt Watch, looking at Al Hunt's post-election analysis.
November 6, 2002
Added my notions of What the Election Means to Ephemerides.
November 5, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the next Archbishop of Canterbury's arguments for leaving Saddam Hussein unmolested.
November 3, 2002
Added the MagiCon Bookmark Anthology, a series of very short stories printed on bookmarks. It was published in 1989 to publicize the Orlando bid for the 1992 World Science Fiction Convention.
October 30, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on why Democratic politcal professionalism may at last backfire.
October 29, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the consequences that the Chechen rebels' embrace of terror ought to entail.
October 28, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on a new poll that supposedly shows rising American intolerance of Moslems.
October 26, 2002
Added an article on a wargaming rarity called Ancient Conquest, the first game to depict the grand sweep of ancient history.
October 24, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on why Americans don't listen to Europe.
October 21, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides: an odd but true example of "diversity" mania.
October 20, 2002
Added "Sense of Wonder" by John Berry to The Best of Fandom - 1958.
October 17, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on why the time has come to impeach Bill Clinton.
October 14, 2002
Added "The Purifans" by Sid Birchby to The Best of Fandom - 1958.
October 12, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on what we can learn from the bear market.
October 11, 2002
Added a new Hunt Watch, as Al turns his attention to New Jersey.
October 10, 2002
Added a new issue of ERISA Whirled.
Presented, in an eirenic spirit, my very own contribution to "Oxfordian scholarship".
October 9, 2002
Added a new Hunt Watch, noting that Al doesn't mind if Democratic candidates ignore what he regards as sound principles, just so long as they win.
October 7, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on curing the economy.
October 6, 2002
Added updates and corrections to the text of my treatise Pension Plan Terminations.
October 3, 2002
Added a belated Hunt Watch, having fallen a week in arrears. This one is about the alleged evil inherent in cutting taxes.
September 30, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on Senator Torricelli's withdrawal and why the New Jersey Democratic Party deserves no sympathy.
September 28, 2002
Added photos of Midwest Construction, a convention for convention runners.
September 25, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on Senator Daschle's complaint that President Bush is "politicizing" the war.
September 24, 2002
Added the latest Hunt Watch, where Al tries to divert attention from foreign policy to the more congenial topic of health care.
September 23, 2002
Added an item to Quark Watch on a "progressive" Web site's contention that All Change Is Bad.
September 22, 2002
Added first thoughts on the outcome of the German election to Ephemerides.
Added a letter of comment on Chancellor Schröder.
Added a new issue of ERISA Whirled.
Added the Chicago in 2000 Bid Party Manual to Artifacts of Fandom.
September 20, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on Chancellor Schröder's highly unsatisfactory pseudo-apology for his Justice Minister's remarks.
September 19, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the German Justice Minister's likening of President Bush to Adolf Hitler, followed by her claim that he ought to be in jail.
September 16, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on Iraq's purported and partial acceptance of one of President Bush's five conditions for peace.
September 14, 2002
Added a new Hunt Watch, discussing Al's answer to the question, "Are you better off today than a year ago?"
Added a letter of comment from a critic of my review of Diana Price's anti-Stratfordian tome, Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography.
September 13, 2002
Added a report on ConJosé, this year's World Science Fiction Convention.
September 11, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides defending Europe (albeit not every European).
Added a letter of comment from a reader who is really, really displeased with Europe - to the extent of wanting to repeal the Marshall Plan.
September 10, 2002
Added the latest Hunt Watch: Al is back on Iraq, less coherent than ever.
September 8, 2002
Added photos from ConJosé, the 2002 World Science Fiction Convention (pages 1, 2, 3 and 4).
September 6, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on what polls tell us about the attitudes of the "European street".
September 4, 2002
Added a new Hunt Watch: Al goes all treacly over a well-intentioned but rather fatuous campaign to mobilize the high school vote.
September 2, 2002
Added 2002 Hugo Award results in the fiction categories to Quark Watch.
August 31, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the canard that contemporary hawks advocate war from a position of safety.
August 28, 2002
Added another Al Hunt Watch, discussing Al's talk-radio-like rantings on baseball's labor-management dispute.
August 24, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the implications of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's "rebuke" of government's anti-terrorist efforts.
August 19, 2002
Added the latest Al Hunt Watch. Al reveals how he would topple Saddam Hussein: with new corporate disclosure requirements!
August 17, 2002
Added an item to Querulous Notes on an anti-Stratfordian foray into Latin scholarship.
Added an item to Ephemerides on Brent Scowcroft's arguments against deposing Saddam Hussein.
August 16, 2002
Added a letter of comment on my review of Diana Price, Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography.
August 15, 2002
Reorganized and resumed adding links to File 911.
August 14, 2002
Added a new Al Hunt Watch, discussing Mr. Hunt's inane treatment of worries about the falling adoption rate.
August 11, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the notion that it is sufficient to "contain" Saddam Hussein.
Added photographs of Westercon 55.
August 9, 2002
Added a letter of comment requesting opinions on the application of the section 414(b) and (c) controlled group rules to tax-exempt employers (for ERISAphiles only).
August 8, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the survival tactics of the Saudi oligarchy.
August 5, 2002
Added an item to Ephemerides on the supposedly treasonous pratice of "corporate inversion".
Added Robert Madle's introduction to The Best of Fandom - 1958.
August 4, 2002
Added the latest Hunt Watch: Al rehashes his objections to attacking Saddam Hussein.
August 1, 2002
Added a new issue of ERISA Whirled.
Revised my previous discussion of stock option accounting in hopes of making it more accurate and lucid. The conclusion - that the debate over expensing stock options is sound and fury signifying nothing - remains intact.
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