A Good Man is Hard to Find Because the Media Ignores Him
Via Jesse Walker: The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook So, so true.
Monthly Archive: August 2011
Elsewhere, Hither and Thither
My second piece is live at The Atlantic. This time around I offer up some reading recommendations for those of us on George R. R. Martin withdrawals. I’m sure that I will learn that...
Who says politics can’t be good for business?
Not Rick Perry’s political donors, anyways. So much for small government: Texas Gov. Rick Perry has powered his political career on the largesse of donors like Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons, who gave the governor...
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Tim Carney has a very good piece up on the media’s continued efforts to ignore, at every turn, presidential hopeful Ron Paul. So, again, why doesn’t Paul get the attention he seems to deserve?...
Two Sides of the Same Lannister Coin
For me, one of the most unexpected point of views in A Storm of Swords was Jaime Lannister but as I read the third installment in A Song of Ice and Fire I’ve come...
Gay Muppets
I misread Julian Sanchez’s post and unfortunately mischaracterized his argument because of it. I still think we disagree, on some level, about what ought to be done regarding the representation of gays on Sesame...
Confession
I don’t know what to make of religion. I never have, really. I am one of those rare people who have always been drawn toward the idea of a call to metaphysical belief in...
On Sesame Street and Gay Marriage
My take, contra Julian Sanchez, is that Bert and Ernie should not get married A) because the show’s creators say they’re not gay, and B) because Sesame Street doesn’t really deal with sexuality because...
Saturday Jukebox
I was wondering why we didn’t have a Friday Night Jukebox yesterday, and I was then hit by the horrible possibility that it was a New Guy Chore and I’d totally screwed up. In...
Jobs and Other Wastes of Worldly Effort
IOZ writes: What do you do with the sentiment that the government or Barack Obama or John Boner or the Times editorial board or whatever is/are failing to “do enough” to “create jobs”? We...
Crucifixion and Archaeology
A detailed discussion of one of the few victims of crucifixion to be discovered, here. Less on the gore and pain of how the death-torture physically worked than trying to glean historical facts and possibilities...
Thoughts on last night’s Republican debate
Except for the absence of soon-to-announce candidate Governor Rick Perry, last night’s debate was the first in which essentially the full roster of candidates was on-stage. But even with the addition of former Governor...
Austerity and Stimulus
Since my last post, the debt limit has been raised, and all is well with the world, for now anyway. But the debt limit itself was never the real issue, it was just a...
The Polis in Post-Modernity (II): Scale and the City
In a comment to my previous post, Art Deco offers several statistics in support of his counter-argument that “Mobility is not so novel.” He is right—and especially, I would say, in America. Huck Finn sets...
A Little Atheism for Y’all
This shouldn’t surprise anyone (via Sullivan): Following the appearance of Blair Scott, the Communications Director for the American Atheists, Inc., on Fox News’ America Live show, the network’s Facebook page was overrun with death...
Riots, left and right
The critique of the riots and neoliberalism that Elias links to below reminds me quite a bit of Theodore Dalyrmple’s piece in City Journal, and this piece in The Australian. Perhaps individualism cannot really...
Political destruction in the neoliberal era
Over on the series of tubes that emanates from the Twitter hive mind, Ned Resnikoff flagged this post from Will Davies (no relation, I assume, to brothers Ray and Dave) that stands for now...
Dear President Obama: Please indoctrinate my child.
** POST IS UPDATED BELOW ** When my son was eight my wife and I starting getting emails and phone calls from other parents, warning us that the public school system was succumbing...
The Polis in Post-Modernity (I): Migration and New Media
In the summer issue of National Affairs, Marc Dunkelman offers a diagnosis of the American polity via America’s communities: Over the past few decades, technological, social, cultural, and economic changes have revolutionized the structure...
Meanwhile at Forbes…
I resurrect an old post about video games and crime and how the two might be linked. I talk about the riots in London, and link them to the war on drugs, and point...
