Arsenal of Authoritarianism
The top 10 technologies for tyranny. I’m vaguely mortified that my favorite childhood game – Civilization II – makes a cameo appearance.
Monthly Archive: January 2010
Awesome headlines from across the pond
From the putatively respectable Times: “The day I decided to stop being gay,” “What it feels like to be a pick-up artist,” and “Fat bloke at fit camp – read his daily reports.”
Do recessions encourage crime?
Yes, says David Downes, professor of criminology at the London School of Economics. No, says Heather Mac Donald, writing a few weeks back in The Wall Street Journal. Downes also suggests that the breakdown...
Department of Easy Targets
Vanity Fair visits the Creationist Museum. Potshots abound, but it’s still a pretty funny article.
Why the Senate HCR Bill is Dead
I think Big Tent Democrat pretty perfectly sums up why, in the aftermath of Scott Brown’s shocker last night, the Democrats will not be able to pass health care reform by resorting to “Plan...
Outsourcing Content
In lieu of writing an actual, honest-to-goodness post, here are a few recommendations from around the web:
Contrarian Thought of the Day
Transplanted Lawyer argues that in the long run a Scott Brown victory today could hurt Republicans because it will force the Dems to alter what would have likely been a losing campaign strategy for...
Nihilism?
Others here may well disagree, but I would like to associate myself with every word of James Joyner’s response to Andrew Sullivan’s accusation that a Scott Brown win will signal “a nihilist moment, built...
A Very Merry Un-Posting to You
Br. Erik writes an interesting riposte to Br. Poulos re: The Tea Partiers. Erik’s post is here, James’ here. Given that James is writing about the Tea Partiers, I think it’s fair to now...
Of tea parties and tyranny
There are many things wrong with what James is trying to say in this post. I will try to tackle a few of them. The meat of the post, which is also the part...
Meta-Narrating: The Year in Review for President Obama
Paul Krugman’s op-ed (for today) begins: Lately many people have been second-guessing the Obama administration’s political strategy. The conventional wisdom seems to be that President Obama tried to do too much — in particular,...
Technicalities
John Carney has some interesting commentary on the first day of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission hearings. He writes: A structured credit product—whether its as simple as a mortgage backed security or a complex...
Is inflation in our future?
Greg Mankiw says that it’s not a sure thing, despite the large deficits and rapid growth in our money supply.
quote of the day III
“No one will ever put “worked for the Martha coakley campaign” on their resume. Unless they’re a republican.” ~ Ezra Klein
Coakley and the Amirault family
This piece in the Wall Street Journal by Dorothy Rabinowitz on the role Martha Coakley played in the wrongful imprisonment of the Amirault family is a must read. And lest you should think this...
QOTD II
Following up on ED’s earlier post, here’s a smart observation from Derek Thompson at The Atlantic on the consequences of (an increasingly likely) Scott Brown victory in the Massachusetts special senatorial election (hint: the...
Flotsam and Jetsam
I found Robert Stacy McCain’s piece on the Brown-Coakley Senate race to be a fun and interesting read that also has the benefit of being Real, Actual Journalism.
The age of ideological uncertainty, continued
Anti-stimulus sentiment ran high in the comments section of my (qualified) defense of the Obama Administration’s economic policy. I encourage the skeptics to check out this article from Richard Posner, which mounts a limited...
quote of the day
“You can have religious freedom but you probably shouldn’t work in the emergency room.” ~ Democratic candidate Marie Antoinette Martha Coakley, further sabotaging her own campaign. P.S. – I have to admit, I really like Scott...
