So… where’s your head at? Consider this an open thread.
Month: September 2011
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law! Sir Thomas More: Yes! What...
So we all agree that it’s precipitous, or maybe something more pejorative, to withdraw from society over...
If you are convicted of a misdemeanor in Baldwin County, Alabama (that’s on the east side of...
Writes Will Oremus at Slate: Unemployment is high and wages stagnant, but that hasn’t stopped health insurance...
…but kind of expected. Here’s the part that speaks to me most:
Leitmotif: History has no meaning, I contend. But this contention does not imply that all we can...
Consider this an open thread.
Michael Tracy has an article up at The American Conservative on Ralph Nader’s quest to get progressives...
I would be remiss to leave the recent discussions on affirmative action and equality without citing Frederick...
“Every so often,” said the Capitalist, “I have the sense that you all don’t hate me quite...
By Kyle Cupp I begin with a confession: reading Freddie deBoer’s post on the poor outcomes of...
It is perhaps a little late in the day to be writing about this, given the amount...
In a post I did on religion a while back, I talked about the various reasons I...
Henry Farrell summarizes neoliberalism as defined by Colin Crouch in The Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism: Crouch depicts...
I admit, when I saw my first Buck the Fuckeyes, I chuckled but I quickly realized there’s...
Via Pacific Legal Foundation, the California Legislature recently passed a bill, SB 185, that would require the...
A little taste of how politics can differ between the US and New Zealand. John Key, Prime...
Does anybody else find the entire Iron Islands storyline tiresome and disconnected? I do. I just can’t...
Hard to say which side I root for getting a comeuppance more. The NYPD for defending this action:
