Empty days.
In the comments to Jason’s post on gay teen suicide, cruelty, and high school, R. Pointer posted a link (by way of David Friedman) to an old essay called “Why Nerds Are Unpopular.” The...
Monthly Archive: October 2010
Wecommended Weeding
Will doesn’t quite agree with Matt Labash on medical marijuana: Labash seems to think that his subjects’ tenuous connection to the health care industry is some sort of blanket indictment of marijuana use, but...
Recommended Reading
Matt Labash has a new article out on Michigan’s nascent medical marijuana industry. Like pretty much everything he writes, it’s extremely funny, but Labash’s actual views on the issue seem to fall somewhere in...
On Defending the Status Quo Against the Culture Warriors
By: Nadezhda Advance apologies for the length of this comment. But I’m genuinely puzzled by this post by Rufus on a number of levels. For starters, I find the basic assumption doesn’t match my own...
John Waters on Dive Bars, Perverts, Pasolini, and Levi Johnston
Since it’s Saturday and we’re all relaxing (sort of), I thought I’d post this John Waters interview in lieu of posting. It makes me nostalgic for Baltimore dive bars and bull dagger lesbians, while...
Gay Teen Suicides
I’ve been afraid to write about the recent suicides by gay teenagers. Suicide comes in waves. One person kills himself. Others hear about it and imitate. An epidemic begins. Even talking about it can...
Competition in the healthcare industry
John Hood, writing at The Corner, grumbles about the shuttering of Principal Financial’s health insurance division. This is understandable since Principal Financial provides Mr. Hood with his own insurance. Here’s the New York Times:...
The Trouble with the Culture Wars
Writing at the NYTimes, Ross Douthat tweaks the noses of liberals, who he says enjoy the culture wars after all. “Can we officially retire the notion that liberals don’t like the culture war? That...
