Jim Leff's Slog

Heads and shoulders above any Musk interview I've ever heard. He delves into some engineering problems, explained in beautifully penetra...

This is part of a series of postings on self-healing, which you can access via the "Self-Healing" tag which appears in the Slog’s...

Ever the contrarian, I feel hope despite the impending COVID "blizzard". More hopeful, in fact, than at any time since this all st...

Discussing yesterday's "Essential TV Viewing" with friend-of-the-slog Paul Trapani: Note: Paul knows I bailed out of cat...

In my previous posting, "Essential TV Viewing" , I raved over a couple of ancient BBC adaptations of John le Carré novels: Tinke...

Updating and rearranging my 2016 grand index of must-see TV . I didn't own a TV as an adult until 2006. So for me, TV began in 2006 (n...

Watching a for-the-ages great series like "Succession", "Breaking Bad" (I told you about both long before they were popu...

I know a number of bona fide wine experts. Not just folks with fancy cellars, or who lead tastings at the local community center. I mean ser...

It finally struck me (because I'm slow) that the penchant for selfies (and, in previous eras, shutterbuggery in general), is largely abo...

I don't celebrate holidays - any of them - or my birthday. And I've spent years trying to figure out why. As I've written a num...