TV Quote of the Day
“I’d rather dip my jewels in honey and go on a bear watch.” –Shawn Spencer, Psych Season 4 Episode 15 in response to Gus asking him whether he would like to watch his dad...
Daily Archive: March 11, 2010
Slum Urbanism
Somewhat belatedly I’d like to link to this piece about slum urbanism: how environmentalists and other city-lovers can learn from the way slums are pieced together. “Slum” here is used to mean an informal...
John Yoo: Not criminal, just incompetent
David Cole assembles some devastating criticism from Yoo’s former colleagues:
Schools and accountability
[updated] Here’s the part that gets me – if, as is assumed in this critique (an assumption I largely agree with by the way) that it is not possible to adequately measure performance via...
Diane Ravitch on the Diane Rehm Show
By chance, I happened to be driving and listening to NPR today when Diane Ravitch had a guest slot on the Diane Rehm show. I only caught parts of the program, but what I...
The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society should top this list
Wired has assembled the best concept albums of all time.
The League Diaspora
Ordinary Gentleman Matthew Schmitz discusses Eric Rohmer and French New Wave Cinema for First Things.
Critics of Woodrow Wilson strangely ignore the worst aspects of his presidency
I’m happy to see that disenchantment with Woodrow Wilson – the most bizarre candidate for the pantheon of great American presidents – is reaching a wider audience on the American Right. But this nascent...
Walmart is not the culprit, it is the symptom
Whatever else one thinks of how we live these days, it’s hard to not see it as temporary, historically anomalous, a peculiar blip in human experience. I’ve spent my whole life riding around in...
