Jim Leff's Slog

"Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable."  - Anthony de Mello* No matter where I drive my car, regardless of...

Leff's Fourth Law says: 95% of apparent maliciousness is actually incompetence. Napoleon, it turns out, said it earlier and better: ...

Criterion produces DVD and Blu-Ray* editions of great films. They seek out the best possible prints, transfer them with care, and package th...

As I once wrote : Billions of people yearn for greatness. Millions of people do things they hope will make them great. Thousands of p...

John Stewart makes an elegant point I hadn't heard anyone else make this week (uttered sarcastically regarding Republican reaction to th...

When I was running Chowhound, I was forced to limit my accessibility because I was busy, not because I was important. There were too many pe...

I'm not a Weird Al Yankovic fan - and didn't think I was a Donnie Osmond fan - and I try not to link to amusing videos more than onc...

These cooking infographics (scroll down that page), explaining how to use spices, herbs, and such, have gone viral. It's a whole new gr...

I'm a fan of the 96th Street 6 train (IRT) station, which looks straight out of Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" . I took these sh...

The New Yorker covered gluten madness this week. It's a remarkably long, cautious, and meandering article, clearly written from a posit...