Lebron James Is Only What You Want Him To Be
Ta-Nehisi Coates thinks about the way we think about sports: Sports narratives strike me as a kind of modern mythology. We see the players as the gladiators of our cities, as champions for our...
Monthly Archive: June 2011
Where are the incumbents?
It’s incredible to me how many former officials support ending the Drug War. Why, it’s almost as if holding elected office made you… biased or something: The Global Commission on Drug Policy, which includes...
On death and dying
Jack Kevorkian has died. From the obituary in the New York Times. From June 1990, when he assisted in the first suicide, until March 1999, when he was sentenced to serve 10 to 25...
Game of Thrones Bookclub: It’s not like the songs
The single most pivotal event in these chapters is Jamie Lannister throwing Bran off a tower ledge. This is the event that changes the course of the lives of basically every character we’ve met...
How many blogs do we have here now?
If you can’t get enough of Jason here on the main page, he is now writing his own personal blog on-site as well. His “intro” post is here.
The Limits of Knowledge in the Education Debate
I have two posts up at Forbes trying to explain my still-evolving thoughts on the very complicated, very messy education debate. The first is a piece railing against tribalism: Going forward I hope to...
Walker Percy’s Galaxy Quest
“[I]t is an established fact that a preponderance of religious imagery or an avowed religious intent can go a long way toward mitigating the science-fictional taint, which also helps explain the appeal to mainstream...
Admittedly, every time I’ve eaten at TGIFridays, I’ve thought of jihad…
An American Muslim-convert South Park hater was recently arrested in Morocco. My sister actually saw him last week, in Morocco, eating in a local TGIFridays. There are many possible punchlines here.
The Car & The City
by Trumwill Peak Oil has been right around the corner for decades. Global warming requires a response that is going to make energy – oil in particular – more expensive. Commuters and drivers are...
Somalia and Binary Thinking
There is a refrain that one comes across from time to time when debating the merits of libertarianism that, in crude terms, goes something like this: What you libertarians don’t understand is that we...
