Day: February 12, 2010

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Friday Night Jukebox

Will February 12, 2010

I’m a sucker for rhythmic minimalism: New York Is Killing Me – Gil S…

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Science Fiction Friday (II)

Will February 12, 2010

The ultimate guilty pleasure: Alyssa Rosenberg delves into the Star Wars expanded universe.

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Hesiod “Works and Days”

Rufus F. February 12, 2010

Perhaps inappropriately, Mister Kain’s recent post about populist conservatism comes to mind because I’m reading Hesiod, who...

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Science Fiction Friday

Will February 12, 2010

Because it’s my blog and I’ll post ephemera if I want to: The LA Times on Philip...

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“I had to get my book game back up”

Will February 12, 2010

An entertaining article on the reading habits of NBA players, international and homegrown alike. On a related...

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IFRL-TLC-War-GAPD-versailles.the-army-takes-an-oath-to-the-emperor-after-the-distribution-of-eagles-5-december-1804-59

Can blogging prevent plagiarism?

Will February 12, 2010

I completely missed the Daily Beast plagiarism scandal, but Michael Roston has an interesting post on how...

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A modest proposal for childhood obesity

Erik Kain February 12, 2010

Every First Lady is obliged to tackle some trendy and media-inflated crisis. For Hillary Clinton it was...

Dark Matter in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025This situation reminds me of the whole "U leaders don't deal with sex offenders" problem. The compli…
North in reply to Michael Cain on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointOh I agree; I noted as such in my original comment. But I can't help but notice that all the stories…
Dark Matter in reply to Michael Cain on From the NY Times: DOGE Savings “85 percent less than its objective”Military spending is roughly half of that $1.6T discretionary spending I think Musk didn't review th…
Michael Cain in reply to Dark Matter on From the NY Times: DOGE Savings “85 percent less than its objective”Do those numbers put DOD and military spending done by other parts of the government in discretionar…
Michael Cain in reply to North on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointTexas, and to a somewhat lesser extent Florida, build because they can sprawl. Where are the desirab…
Dark Matter on From the NY Times: DOGE Savings “85 percent less than its objective”All federal discretionary spending combined is $1.6T. This includes what most of us view as primary…
North in reply to Michael Cain on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointThat is a fair critique to a very broad blanket statement but Florida and Texas are, iirc, the large…
Dark Matter in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025If it were still scientifically accurate, then maybe it would be. Or maybe we've become more accepti…
Jaybird in reply to KenB on Saturday Morning Gaming: Hollow KnightI am *EXCEPTIONALLY* irritated. I watched a youtube that said "fight them like *THIS*" and I went an…
Jaybird in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025My Ethics professor freshman year (so, 1991-1992) was approximately one jillion years old and he exp…