Short form reading recommendations are usually reserved for the sidebar, but I feel compelled to give this one front page billing. Sydney Schanberg – a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose work inspired “The Killing Fields”...
Jim Geraghty has a great article on the foibles of a movement candidate from Nevada, including one statement that sounds awfully close to an endorsement of prohibition:
In an interesting post at Girl w/ Pen, Alison Piepmeier discusses her discomfort with using battle metaphors to describe life with illness and disability: “I’d be politically troubled or offended if someone had referred...
Given the recent discussions about social dynamism and technological innovation around these parts, you may be interested in Scott Sumner’s take on the 20th century’s innovation boom. The scope of technological change at mid-century...
So, I’m just getting around to checking out Ricochet (featuring, of course, the estimable James Poulos). I have to say that I’m absolutely in love with the layout, which I think is wonderfully conducive...
“There might be a compromise here.” ~ Jason, earlier today I think it depends on the ‘localist/artisanist/do-it-yourself’ individual, obviously, but I think many would certainly like Make magazine. I hadn’t heard of it before,...
Diego Maradona pledges to run naked through the streets of Buenos Aires if Argentina wins the World Cup.
A question for the localist/artisanist/do-it-yourself contingent: How do you feel about Make magazine? Do you know it? Love it? Proudly subscribe, as I do? Or do you mistrust it as inauthentic and non-traditional? I’m...
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on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025A modest proposal: Bring back JK Rowling. Don't talk about anybody on our side, don't curb stomp any…
on Trump’s Unforced ErrorGlad I went with this instead of my original comment, "You say you want a Revolution? Well, you know…
on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025But is there a politically significant constituency that will be satisfied by this nuanced and civil…
on Trump’s Unforced ErrorThis might be the most erudite comment thread ever posted on this site. on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025The college diet has never been particularly healthy. on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025It's difficult to believe how anybody could take any show that professes to be "news" seriously when…
on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025"EUROPE PLOTS TO STOP TRUMP FROM TAKING GREENLAND"-Fox News, topping itself: https://bsky.app/profil…
on Open Mic for the week of 1/27/2025I think a lot of it is an Extremely Online phenomena. The DC burb I live in ain't San Fran or Brookl…
on Fannie Farmer, Mickey Mouse, and the Virtues of CheatingGreat stuff, Ben. Per usual. on Fannie Farmer, Mickey Mouse, and the Virtues of CheatingWow, really? I've kept bacon drippings in a jar in my fridge for my entire adult life. Keeping it fu…
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