A liberal relative of mine wrote recently on Facebook: I am probably about to get railed at,...
Year: 2010
Here’s an example of prose written in what I call the ‘bullying nerd’ voice. Not up-to-date on all...
Due respect to Andrew Sullivan, but this is overparsing: The other untruth is that I have “advance[d]...
Newly elected U.S. Representative Hansen Clarke (D-Detroit) thinks; To be effective in Congress, it is not knowing...
This takes place circa 1982. Two members of Kansas, one of my favorite bands, became born again...
At Crooked Timber, John Holbo considers whether the Social Security Trust Fund (legally, the Federal Old-Age and...
I’m sorry, but look at this WASP shit. We’ve got King WASP and Queen WASP of the...
I wanted to write a follow up to Mr. Ridgely’s post about meaning of terms as it...
There are many arguments against gay marriage, some harder to deal with than others. One that strikes...
Dio, the late great Ronnie James Dio — Last In Line. This video is so 80s, with...
And I am the final member of The One Best Way to join in this merger with...
“Cancer surviving flight attendant forced to remove prosthetic breast during pat-down.” UPDATE (credit Oleg Volk):
Here’s Slight Figure of Speech, live, from the wonderful Avett Brothers: From the same show, The Perfect...
Doesn’t do as well as Norman Finkelstein in dealing with the “argument from emotion,” at least not...
This post is not about my opinion on the Israel-Palestine issue. My ideal solution — a secular...
Via Brad Warbiany, it appears that it is now an appropriate function of the police to ticket...
The more I learn of Glenn Beck, the more I’m repelled. (Yeah, I’m slow. I don’t watch...
My relationship to various social networking sites explained. Facebook: I have more friends than I can possibly...
Another fun TSA fail via Cory Doctorow (note, this is not Cory speaking, it is a letter...
“Can you play chess without the Queen?” – Ludwig Wittgenstein Moving from one blog to another and...
