Jim Leff's Slog

I'm hell on teachers, and always have been. I question relentlessly and pointedly; I refuse to accept assumptions without ample explanat...

Driverless cars are viewed by most knowledgable parties as inevitable - sooner rather than later. This leaves me, with my lingering skeptici...

What a great Georgian food site Especially... Khachapuri With Potato Filling

If you're ever interviewed by the press, or if you're intimately familiar with a topic covered by the press, odds are you'll be ...

"Character" is measured by the rate at which one discards one's values as stakes rise. All postings labeled "definitions...

You don't have to be a political correctness zealot to know it wouldn't be cool to call a short person "big guy", an overw...

I've always broiled meats, fish, and poultry plain, figuring marination was too much trouble and too froufrou. But I've gotten over ...

If you enjoyed my posting "We're Outstripping Our Own Sci-Fi Future" , then you'll love this new mind-blowing XKCD comic:...

Andrew Weiss had an illuminating piece in Friday's Wall Street Journal , proposing that Vladimir Putin isn't working a fiendish, che...

I mentioned the film Citizenfour a couple of days ago . FYI, it's playing Monday on HBO. If you do watch it, don't forget to follow ...