While flipping through yesterday’s New York Times I hit upon this piece which gave me pause. For...
Month: October 2011
Hey there, folks – for those of you interested in playing the National Novel Writing Month game,...
In a comment on Shawn Gude’s previous post on the main page about the Occupy movement, I...
One of the questions I sometimes get in the real world when discussing the League of Ordinary...
From HuffPo, a speech by Perry making the rounds – not because of its content, but because...
William Brafford wonders about the meaning behind the rise of the anti-hero in the television shows favored...
I’m afraid that in our recent discussion of democracy and coercion the conversation tended to hew toward...
~by wardsmith The Statue of Liberty turned 125 yrs old on Friday the 28th of Oct. These...
Commenter Ktward writes And so I’m wondering, E.D.: If you weren’t speaking to Forbes readers and the...
A little while ago both Erik and myself were giggling over this clip of Ben in Parks...
Protesters in Egypt marched from Tahrir Square to the US Embassy to protest recent police violence in Oakland, CA...
I am currently surrounded by innumerable and extraordinarily high stacks of case law printouts and briefs, looking...
I don’t know if the humour will translate well, but I found this ad against drink-driving produced...
Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines is on sale at Steam. Five Bucks. Five Smackeroos. Five Samoleons. A fin. The...
I recently compared the Occupy Movement to the New Left, but it’s truly striking how different the...
Like the White House, it seems that the media has decided that, momentary signs of life notwithstanding, Rick...
I decided to make my inaugural front page post a relatively short one. For those of you...
Don’t worry, no spoilers in this review. I just finished R. Scott Bakker’s novel The White Luck...
David Masciotra’s got a piece up at Popmatters that takes on a liberal sacred cow in service...
Mike asks: > Absolute power corrupts absolutely – > or is it more complicated than that? It’s...