The City of Toronto Licensing and Standards committee literally brought in a pole dancer so that determinations could be made regarding the regulation of strip clubs. The decision to use this illustrative method was almost certainly made by people that are already intimately familiar with the interiors of these establishments.
Kevin Drum has this post on Josh Barro via Andrew Sullivan on race and the American right: I think it’s fair to suggest that liberals use race as a cudgel more often and more crudely than we should. The problem conservatives have is that this is pretty much the sum total of their take on [...]
We at MentallyEel.org, enjoying in this democratic age a quantity of “leisure time” previously restricted to the so-called “leisure class” of titled nobles and haute bourgeoisie, are also broke. As a public service to our readership, we present this ongoing compendium of best practices for when you have no money and consequently do not value [...]
Monstrous mayor Rob Ford has skipped his weekly weigh-in this week, perhaps in retaliation for the defeat of his transit initiatives.
Curiosities of Music NOT only is music, as a Greek author says, a great and lasting pleasure to all who have learned it or know anything about it, but it is a friend to health and a foe to disease. It is both a recreation and a medicine. No one has ever thought of giving [...]
Varieties Striking lie – One of the most audacious experiments on record is that which some miners in the Pennsylvanian oil fields are reported to have lately perpetrated. They had sunk it appears a very deep shaft in the hope of striking oil but without any success, and being a trifle impatient at the coyness [...]
Charles Dickens in America The sale of tickets for the readings was productive of curious scenes caused chiefly by the rush of speculators. For example: The scene in Boston was as nothing compared with the scene in New York, for the line of purchasers exceeded half a mile in length. The line commenced to form [...]
Camel Journeys A correspondent of the Times gives his experience as to the capability of the camel for travel: Ordinary baggage camels in the Soudan carrying a good load are generally driven at the rate of about twenty miles a day on an average. With a lighter load, however, they do go thirty and sometimes [...]
Scandanavian Marriage Customs TO the old Northmen, our Scandinavian ancestors hailing from the seaboard of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, may be traced in this country at the present day not only many of the characteristic features of our national life, but a great number of those manners and customs which in the course of years [...]
Will Russia Conquer India Future operations against Afghanistan and India must have the Caucasus for their base. Batum can be very easily reached from Odessa in two days; it takes twenty four hours to go by rail from Batum to Baku, as many hours again to cross over to Michailovsk by the Caspian Sea, from [...]