Bring back the top hat!

Here's a fine collection of photos from Skepticon, including several of us in a lovely leather top hat. I think I need to get one for myself.

I'd like to see hats come back into style anyway. It seems like only Texans and their Stetsons that have kept up the practice.

More like this

I know you will not believe me, but I swear it's true: I'm not of this earth. I fled here years ago because my home planet was driving me crazy. Let me explain. My home world is very much like this one. It's populated by billions of bipedal primates, who are just like people here: sometimes…
Geese at Standley Lake (soft pastel and charchol on canvas) by Karmen Lee Franklin, 2007 It seems that in life, nothing ever turns out as expected. Over the past week, which was, of course, National Wildlife Week, I participated in the Blogger Bioblitz. The experience was loads of fun, quite…
Another in my marathon posts, but! To a new city, Rotterdam. Which is indeed a fairly new city, having been bombed to buggery (by us, mostly, I presume [update: no, I'm wrong, it was the Krauts]) during WW II. Anyway, TL:DR: 3:55:53. Which is one second slower than Amsterdam 2012. Here's my list,…
I would like to propose a new law for consideration by our legislature, which I am calling The Minnesota Anti-Texan Act of 2011. I need to work on the formal language for it, but I can give the gist of it here. If any person within the boundaries of the fine state of Minnesota exhibits any of the…