Jim Leff's Slog

This isn't a list of "the best" beers. Just some beers you may or may not know about, and which I happen to be particularly fo...

"Doing inspired work in order to get famous is like eating a great dinner in order to take a shit." -- Banksy The best way to un...

A photo essay by Ned Hepburn capturing the hulking carcasses of abandoned shopping malls has been making the Internet rounds. Here are just ...

This particularly good xkcd comic is up right now: The simplicity is what makes it effective, but being as how this is a Slog rather tha...

Yesterday I described how painfully slow and stupid I am in areas like home decorating. It's not a question of ignorance; I could spend...

I'm very un-visual. I key into the world more via other senses. So I'm poor at anything involving design. Tasks like picking out dra...

In my previous entry , I made frequent reference to "the poor". And that's a term I actually hate (I just didn't have any ...

Here is even stronger confirmation that Paul Ryan, per my previous article , is only a half-Libertarian. As Chris Hayes explains, "Lo...

The antidote to big lies is clear, eloquent common sense. And there are a lot of big lies out there now (though, alas, scant eloquent common...

Apple is about to announce a mini-iPad, according to Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal . John Gruber just wrote a long piece trying to...