The World According to Nick

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So I was having a bit of a sugar craving, and went down to the vending machines to get my fix. After a bit of thinking, I finally decided o...

I just had the following conversation via instant messaging with a coworker: Coworker says: I concede defeat. I'll start working on cha...

I've noticed lately that campaign workers are failing to realize a very simple truth. They are marketing their candidate to people, and...

I think this is the wrong message to be giving illegal immigrants (emphasis mine): The world's busiest border crossing reopened early F...

Every now and then I perform the masochistic ritual of reading the Spivak & Bice Weblog . Today I was treated with this gem : The chang...

Via Ann Althouse comes this perfect little sound bite : "I don't need to be lectured by you. You are no more a protector of the Co...

I happened to read this little piece on MSNBC about what a Democratically controlled House might look like: With expectations of success in...

I have gotten a volunteer... but really I think it's too late in the day to do a decent one given that there are very few submissions in...

The barbershop is on the comeback! For decades, barbershops were a safe, dependable and consistently profitable business. "You didn...

Your guess is as good as mine. Would you mind if it crashes at your blog for a week ? I promise it won't eat that much, and it doesn...

Right on the heels of this controversy , a number of smaller special interest groups have come out in favor of removing certain programming ...

... I just don't see the National Guard at the border doing much good. I think this is especially true given that they won't be do...

Instapundit has another interesting take on the NSA phone number database : YES, THE NSA NUMBER-TRACKING PROGRAM isn't really "eave...

So I was listening to "Don't Know Why" by Norah Jones on my MP3 player while I was driving into work this morning (I have ver...

Kinda defeats one of the purposes if you buy them used doesn't it? Say it with me... Ewwwwwwwww .

More evidence of the overuse of SWAT Teams in our country : Some 20 police officers, many of them members of the city's SWAT Team decked...

I was reading my copy of Mountain Bike, which comes as part of my Bicycling subscription, and saw the following in a section called "Ph...

Tonight while I was out and about, I happened to see a Wauwatosa cop driving, with his cell phone to his ear. In fact, I often times have s...

Part of a new conceptual series entitled "Being Controversial Gets You Noticed". Anyone who writes a blog and cares about getting ...

Earlier this year, a group of scientists did a brain pattern study on people from both sides of the ideological divide, and found one thing ...

Part of a new conceptual series entitled "Being Controversial Gets You Noticed". I fully realize that this post will probably get ...

Part of a new conceptual series entitled "Being Controversial Gets You Noticed". I live in the suburbs and I work downtown. In or...

Today is the day you've all been waiting for... and by "all"... I mean the 7 people who actually read my blog. I was just goi...

I've decided that tomorrow will be Draft Day at The World According to Nick. So if you haven't voted on which drafts you'd like...