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I don't know very much about this, but the Supreme Court just ruled that punitive damages cannot exceed compensatory damages.  Having ju...

The L.A. Times reports that Erica Watson-Currie has trouble with using her iPhone because of her long fingernails.  And she's not the o...

I was very pleased with myself for avoiding retaining Comcast's services, because they charge exorbitant "installation" fees a...

Mia's birthday present to me was beer-making equipment. We haven't bought the equipment yet, but we have been speculating on what b...

The allure of the straight-edge razor with leather sharpening-strap has always captured my imagination, but my instinct for self-preservatio...

Those of you who know me know that I like a firm handshake. And I like to return such a handshake in kind. There's nothing more off-pu...

Young Diamondbacks pitcher Micah Owings , who, in his second year as a starter is pitching extremely well, slugged .683 last year.  This yea...

The other day I got to go to one of Harvard Queenshead Pub's highly subsidized beer school events, and the founder of Sam Adams was ther...

Most people are aware of this incredible and horrible story.  Now, I don't advocate incest any more than the next man, but something th...

I'd like to announce my triumphant return to this blog by linking  to a video of the trained golden retriever that the Trenton Thunder u...

I decided to make the blog classier by giving it its own domain name. It can now be found at http://www.redramekin.com

All future food postings will be available at our new food blog : http://redramekin.blogspot.com/

Inspired by my new favorite food blog, 101cookbooks.com, I decided to experiment with baked eggs this morning. We used oiled ramekins, lined...

Soon, Mia and I will be posting to a food blog. Until then, however, I will post food-related things here. Tonight I, alone, and by myself...

Walking through the yard these days, one can't miss that they're preparing for a major ceremony of some kind. Turns out its the ...

It turns out that, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, economists were very much concerned with whether or not their models should in...

Tradesports gives us two different odds - the odds of any given candidate winning her primary, and the odds of any given candidate winning t...

After days of lazy cruising, it was a shock to hear the intercom wake us up at 6 in the AM so that we could eat another bland breakfast befo...

As many of you know, I was confused as to how a boat might proceed from Moscow to St. Petersburg in a timely way, because no rivers really c...

We arrived in Moscow at 10:30am. The flight brought us over green hills dotted with enormous and beautiful mansions - the summer homes of t...

Hello gentle readers, I am returned from Russia. I will be posting several short descriptions with pictures for anyone interested (in chron...

Here is a link to an LATimes article that confirms claims of a coffee whose beans are selected first by wild civets (cat-like mammals), who...

I noticed that the course guide has been updated, so I'm making a list for the coming semester. Ec 2061: Dynamic Games and Contracts. S...

I inherited from my dad an obsession with airplane disasters and crashes. Today I discovered that planecrashinfo has a page dedicated to s...

Yahoo News reports on a new kind of tattoo ink that, while permanent, is much easier to remove than the usual ink (it's "combustib...