Warning: There are some middlin’ spoilers for the game LA Noire that follow. There is also a question about the societal costs and benefits of putting people in prison for crimes they didn’t commit...
This is week four of the bookclub. We just read chapters 21 – 28, Eddard IV through Eddard V. At this point in the book things are growing more and more foreboding. Eddard arrives...
Brandon Watson and Kyle Cupp both explore possible solutions to the “paradox of fiction”: We human beings read, watch, and listen to a lot of fiction. We know that it is fiction. But we...
I’ve been thinking about bottom-up liberalism and pity-charity liberalism a lot lately, and the whole mess of ideas that swirl around between the two. Essentially, Mike Konczal thinks that growth plus safety nets is...
Commenter Barry got me to thinking — We’ve all heard that the Constitution is not a suicide pact. It’s strange to me, however, that this phrase when used in political debate actually means precisely...
Devcat is working on correcting some bugs that came with the last WP update.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25While amusing I think this is just what happens when you staff your admistration with whatever is wo… on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Heh I believe it is actually Christoph Waltz (Austrians require lots of extra words and t's) who dri…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Luke 20:25 is always sound advice.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Not bad luck, pure stupidity. While I can see it happening (and done it at work one or two times). I…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Getting opsec about the President's followers to prevent them from doing the President's will seems…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25So a couple of months ago, I was talking about how the January 6th people had incredibly bad opsec,…
on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Problem: HimselfWhen there is this much of a opposition to power over this long of a period of time, the calculus se…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Delicious. on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Ahura Mazda seems like a pretty wise guy. How was the food? on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25Happy Nowruz everybody. I was at my second Nowruz celebration with my partner last night. Yesterday…
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