Day: March 9, 2010

Book Club: Plato “The Symposium” IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-altesnational.lake-grunewald-leistikow

Book Club: Plato “The Symposium”

Rufus F. March 9, 2010

Update: I’ve been asked to link to some translations. Here is the Perseus Project Symposium English translation...

Lack of Self-Awareness Watch IFRL-TLC-Religion-GAPD-uffizi.sacrifice-of-isaac

Lack of Self-Awareness Watch

Mark of New Jersey March 9, 2010

Sean Penn: Because every day, this elected leader [Chavez] is called a dictator here, and we just...

Americans already have school choice IFRL-NaPP-Asia-01271vu

Americans already have school choice

Erik Kain March 9, 2010

Austin Bramwell has penned a very convincing post over at The American Conservative on why school choice...

Because Laws Are for the Little People IFRL-NaPP-Retro-800px-France_in_XXI_Century._Intencive_breeding

Because Laws Are for the Little People

Jason Kuznicki March 9, 2010

“The Saint Patrick’s Day event hosted by the Friendly Sons is a 640-person dinner at the Capital...

Alvar Aalto IFRL-TLC-Scenery-steven-wright-1284425-unsplash

Alvar Aalto

Will March 9, 2010

I’ve heard Alvar Aalto described as a highbrow precursor to IKEA (which is emphatically not a Finnish...

Detroit, again IFRL-TLC-Scenery-rawpixel-id-380897

Detroit, again

Will March 9, 2010

Outsiders moaning about Detroit’s woes can be a little unseemly (see this photo gallery, for example), but...

Community, technology, & work IFRL-NaPP-Asia-rawpixel-id-459434

Community, technology, & work

Erik Kain March 9, 2010

I think this Amanda Marcotte piece is pretty interesting. She touches on the idea of work and...

David TC in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Um, no. Literally none of what other people do is relevant to if a specific person committed a crime…
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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…