The Wall Street Journal's Eric Felten, a jazz trombonist who happens to write the killer "How's Your Drink?" column, combed through some 19th century cookbooks to find a decent recipe for Orange Punch, the libation that nearly toppled Andrew Jackson's presidency even before it was a day old. OK, maybe I exaggerate. Writes Felten:

The standard thinking (well, my thinking) about the U.S. economy has been that it's mostly shedding white-collar jobs, you know those high-salaried, middle-management, egg-sucking gigs that stifle the life out of every company. A parallel thought to that (my) standard thinking is that, should you be one of those egg-sucking middle managers who gets the [...]

The Wall Street Journal published a wonderfully counter-intuitive article yesterday on Chuck E. Cheese's, the kiddie pizza-and-arcade parlor that, according to law enforcement officials, is "the scene of a surprising amount of disorderly conduct and battery among grown-ups." The paper goes on to explain the factors—a combination of alcohol, children, and protective parents—that create this [...]