Jesus Saves… $75 Dollars a Day Plus Jail Time
Since I first started lurking here, the issues of what to do with jails has been an ongoing issue. One of the few areas that people here seem to agree on by and large...
Monthly Archive: September 2011
Celebrating Cheese Week
(Forgive me for lack of blogging recently. Overtaken by events and all that.) What a happy coincidence. For me, preparing my weak flesh for the inaugural Big Ten showdown for Nebraska (their opponent: Wisconsin)...
Are white, anti-Obama liberals motivated by racism?
That’s Melissa Harris-Perry’s tendentious contention in her latest Nation column. The crux of her argument: The 2012 election may be a test of another form of electoral racism: the tendency of white liberals to...
Those Poor Bastards…
Recent posts by Erik and their subsequent commentary have gotten me thinking about the poor and needy in this country. The more I see how we approach this topic as a society, the more...
Friday Night Jukebox: Never Stop
Everytime someone asks me to recommend a new band I rave and rave about The Bad Plus. They’re alternative jazz, I say, but not like you expect. They’re good and not just to jazz...
Open Thread: Weekend Reading Edition
This seemed fitting somehow. (via) What is everyone doing to expand their minds this weekend?
Neoliberalism and the Human Economy
What is Neoliberalism? I’ve been pouring through some posts written during the recent neoliberalism debate and it’s struck me that nobody actually agrees on what constitutes a neoliberal. For a long time I’ve thought...
Don Draper Studies II: Mad Men as Western
(This post contains spoilers for various seasons of Mad Men. Read at your own risk, but, I mean, it’s on DVD already, so go ahead and help out the Postal Service and that artist...
Going Valjean
Balloon Juice defines “going Galt” as: Withdrawing one’s unique brilliance from the economy in protest of tax rates which are actually abnormally low for the post-war era. Discussed and encouraged by bloggers such as...
Comment Rescue: Dealth Penalty Contrasts
This comment was written by our very own Chris in the Troy Davis and the American Justice System thread: Yesterday, two men were murdered by the state, one in Georgia and one in Texas....
Troy Davis and the American justice system
I feel someone at the League should at least acknowledge—and inveigh against—the horrendous tragedy that occurred tonight. We’re in a sad, sad state as a country when Dick Cheney, a war criminal, can publish...
The Value of Political Concepts
My former colleague Will Wilkinson writes: It seems to me that most of our high-level political concepts like “freedom” or “equality” are tailored and tweaked to justify the kind of political regime we already...
Liberty, Anarchy and the Pragmatist’s Dilemma
I will be blogging Gary Chartier’s Conscience of an Anarchist over the next couple of weeks at Forbes, but before we set out, I want to touch on a handful of pieces I’ve read...
That Fine Line Between Correlation and Coincidence
Via Andrew, a new Way-Too-Soon general election snapshot: Obama now leads Texas Governor Rick Perry, the frontrunner in the GOP contest, 46% to 39%. Perry’s chief rival for the nomination, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney , holds...
The Governmental Regulation vs. Litigation Spectrum
There’s a pretty great ongoing conversation going on below stemming from a comment-turned-post by Jaybird on the unintended costs of governmental regulations. As always, my thoughts on the subject of governmental regulation don’t lean...
Some may use this to question public policy…
… but my question is, how does someone this politically tone deaf ever get elected to public office in the first place?
Your Class Warfare Song of the Day
There’s been a class war going on since the 1980s. It’s just that the side being attacked has finally decided to start defending itself. We’ll see if that actually works in America. “But don’t...
My Last Thoughts on Pro-Life/Pro-Choice; or, Why the Hell Did I Ask That Question, Anyway?
Earlier this week I posted a hypothetical choice for people on both sides of the abortion issue. The question essentially asked the reader, given the choice between a world where this debate had potential...
Unintended Consequences Sunday Sidebar Comment Request Open Thread
I wrote a comment in Fellow Gentleman Christopher Carr’s sidebar post and he asked me to post it to the main page and then I read that comment and then I posted this. My...
What will the myths be in A Song of Ice and Fire?
By the end of A Storm of Swords and the beginning of A Feast for Crows (which I just recently began rereading. I’m almost at A Dance!) Jaime’s transformation is roughly complete and Sansa...
