Another double-podcast weekend for me, starting with the Ricochet podcast on Friday with special guest Jason Willick of the Washington Post. James Lileks and I give Harvard a thorough and much-deserved thrashing, before taking up the civil liberties controversies with Jason.


You can listen at the link right above, or take it in here:
And then of course there is the usual Three Whisky Happy Hour episode for the week, where we cover some of the same subjects, albeit with a side order of Gramsci, and more than our usual fireworks. Use the link above, or listen right here:
Meanwhile, several readers have passed along that they miss my headlines gallery from the former TWiP, so here’s a slugfull to get the weekend off to a good start:
If you aren't familiar, the New Pornographers is a stellar band. I've been a fan for years. Bummer about the drummer though.
City picked up the pace. It issued 12 permits in 100 days. Say around 8500 homes destroyed (excludes commercial) in palisades & Altadena , the permit phase will continue until year 2219. By that time the only thing remaining in California will be the critters.