Ben & Jerry’s
Will be producing Schweddy Balls ice cream. I personally checked the calendar to make sure it wasn’t April 1st. Still one of the better parodies of NPR: SNL’s Schweddy Balls sketch.
Monthly Archive: September 2011
The fact that I’m a beer snob is beside the point
So, it’s interesting to me that so many libertarian-minded people, when they look at beer sales in America, say “People drink Budweiser because people like Budweiser!” and fail to take into account the laws...
Gotcha!
After the initial outcry of liberuls regarding Governor Perry’s answer to Brian Williams death row question, it was inevitable that we’d start seeing a right-wing backlash against Perry having gotten a “gotcha!” question. Can...
Look, the thing about the GOP is…
The other night I wrote a response to a post by Michael Lofgren’s GOP takedown that Erik brought to my attention, and when I got up the next morning the comment thread made it...
Caption Contest
Photo via Matt Welch. Apparently this happened during a commercial break after a heated exchange between the two.
AGW and Logical Rudeness
At Cato Unbound, we’re discussing Michael Shermer’s fascinating new book The Believing Brain. Shermer himself gives a short introduction to the emerging neuroscience of political belief. And Eliezer Yudkowsky, whom I consistently find one...
There Will Be Blood
Ladies and gentlemen, the next Republican nominee for President of the United States of America! I can’t help but think we get the leaders we deserve. Oh hey look, ma, I’m quoted in the...
The Republican Debate
I only caught the end of the debate, but that was enough. It was enough to remind me that the Republican Party boils down to three things: tax cuts, “What Would Reagan Do?” and...
Craft Beer and the Human Economy
Tom Philpott observes that not all alcohol regulations need necessarily be a bad thing: It’s true that Carter’s move on behalf of home brewers helped push along the craft-brew revolution, as did the state-by-state...
Don Draper Studies I: Shoring Fragments Against Ruins
(This post talks about all of Season 4 of Mad Men. Read at your own risk, but, I mean, it’s on DVD already, so go ahead and help out Netflix and the Postal Service.) Over...
The Culture is Fine, Thanks
Forgive me for a little anti-curmudgeon curmudgeoning, but the numbers cited in this Mary Sue post by Jamie Frevele (and the post itself, to some extent) set off all my neurons. We see these dire...
Neuroscience and Party
A literature review and summary of the state of research by Andrea Kuszewski.
Lemieux, Stoller, Obama, and me
I’ve gotten much better at this blogging thing as time has gone by, but every once in a while I fall off the wagon and Blog While Angry. This is essentially never a good...
Chamberyzette
We’re quickly running out of summer, so I want to share one of my favorite drinks of the last few weeks before it’s too late. Hat-tip to Derek Brown, who turned me on to...
Concerning the Post Office
My co-blogger Will Truman has authored a really interesting piece on the United States Post Office. I commend it to you all.
At the Intersection of Science and Faith
Up at Forbes, I have a piece this morning about the intersection of science and religion that I think readers here might find interesting. Here’s a snippet: Of course, this tension between religion and...
Michael Lofgren, The GOP “Cult,” and the Same Old Same Old
By way of Erik, I came to read Michael Lofgren’s well-written but ultimately unconvincing piece about the “Cult” of the GOP in Truthout. And I can’t deny it was a fun read, as I...
Aging boomer trends
Here are a couple of interesting (and troubling) posts about what aging boomers are up to. First, the LA Times reports that, as predicted, the nation’s 77 million boomers are beginning to dump their...
The Rise and Fall of the Republican Party
I read Michael Lofgren’s excellent piece on the many failings of the Republican Party over the long weekend. It’s not exactly anything new so much as it is all put very well. Lofgren is a...
Obama on the ropes
Andrew Sullivan makes his return to the blogosphere with a Where Are We Now-styled post, the majority of which features him rather deftly outlining the many ways in which the President finds himself in...
