Sunday Poem Series
The Twa Corbies (traditional folk song, originally anthologized by T. Ravenscroft) As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane; The tane unto the t’other say, ‘Where sall we gang...
Monthly Archive: November 2009
Inane Bleg for Vegans
No snark intended here, but what is the vegan position on flu vaccines that rely on replicating the virus in chicken eggs?
For History Buffs
A bunch of interesting stuff has been floating around the Internet this month. My favorites:
Tucker Carlson to launch new right-leaning news site: The Daily Caller
This should be cool. I like Carlson. I think he’s a pretty smart guy, one of the more honest voices on the right. We’ll see what it’s like when it goes live…
Applause
Dave Schuler goes on a fine rant against Tom Friedman’s magnificent straw man on climate legislation.
Meanwhile, at True/Slant…
So at my American Tory blog I talk about: Sarah Palin (twice!) Teachers’ unions strong-arming their best teachers. Republican hypocrisy on fiscal responsibility. The best news in ages in the healthcare reform saga. And I start talking...
Weekend Open Thread
As you may have noticed, the last few days the regular gents have been lazy dogs like Puck here. Or if you want to be generous to us, we’ve just had collective writers’ block. ...
Investment advice: put your money into prisons
Arizona is considering selling off its prisons as part of a larger process of balancing the budget. Even death row would be privately run. The state government predicts the move could save them $100...
So much for school reform
DC Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is now enmeshed in this incredibly lurid sex scandal.
This is not a persuasive rejoinder to rigorous sports analysis
Peter King, being snide: There are many reasons why I like the Patriots, but the biggest is that all the statisticians of the world got together the other day and ran all the Pats/Jets...
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Afghanistan?
Spencer Ackerman points me to this Tom Ricks post on David Kilcullen’s speech re: Afghanistan. Ricks on Kilcullen’s central argument: His [Kilcullen’s] bottom line is that there are two real options in Afghanistan: Either...
Scary
Barry Ritholtz has a table comparing the bull market rallies in 1982 and 2009. One has the support of sound fundamentals and one does not. See for yourselves.
More Blawgging
The Legal Theory Blog takes aim at two of the most meaningless, empty and (unfortunately) frequently used terms in conservative political discourse when constitutional law is involved: strict constructionism and judicial activism.
I Think I Just Threw Up in My Mouth a Little Bit
It’s tough to disagree with Von’s assessment of She Who I Shall Not Name’s likely impact on the 2012 Presidential race:
While you guys were talking about a certain politician…
…I was messing around with the “in b flat” project. It’s sort of like playing with sound loops, except other people made them and put them on YouTube. Enjoy your ten-minute collaborative tune! [via...
Dream Job
For Deadheads, at least: The University Library of the University of California, Santa Cruz, seeks an enterprising, creative, and service-oriented archivist to join the staff of Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) as Archivist for...
Son of The Wire
Matt Yglesias says: What’s really depressing to me about the current TV landscape isn’t so much that we haven’t seen another Wire-quality show as it is that we haven’t even seen a serious effort...
