And now for something completely different
‘Shampoo’ by Elvis Perkins It’s not exactly Bach or whatever, but damn I love the music being made these days…
Daily Archive: August 31, 2011
Our monument won’t be a hole in the ground
Conor Friedersdorf posts this video of radical conservative Bryan Fischer: Conor writes: In the clip above, Bryan Fisher of the American Family Association reminds us that until very recently, many U.S. jurisdictions imposed unconscionable...
Climate Change is Real, and it’s Heating Up
Despite what many GOP contenders for the 2012 presidential nomination say, the Earth really is heating up, and the costs of global warming may be drastically higher than previous estimates suggested. Meanwhile, investigators in...
The economic hurdles of a left-libertarian alliance
~by Shawn Gude We’re in rather unpropitious times for left-libertarian bridge-building. I don’t take glee in making this assertion; I’m more crestfallen than content. Indeed, I’ve spilled a fair amount of ink arguing that...
What’s Really Wrong with ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’
~by Ryan B. Lots of spoilers for the whole series, up to and including A Dance with Dragons. Reader beware. Now that we’re past our contretemps of the last few days, maybe it’s time...
Misguided Attack on Libertarians (Prompts Some Reasonable Discussion)
This time it’s Michael Lind, and the charge is that libertarians are really just fascists in disguise. He stumbles out of the gate claiming that none other than Ludwig von Mises was a fascist...
David Brooks, Expertise, and the Fetishization of Happiness
People have been giving attention to David Brooks’ latest column. This is good, because I have a soft spot for the incorporation of Yiddish into daily life, particularly the word “bagel,” and especially on...
