Well begun is half done.
In the comment thread of an earlier post I said this: One of the things that’s so different about building a boat vs. making docs is that you start building the boat with a...
Monthly Archive: November 2011
Not Snakes on a Plane
Crying babies. The Economist weighs in, Megan McArdle responds via Twitter. Three things:
Democracy and the rhetoric of protests: A response to Will Wilkinson and Julian Sanchez
Manichean rhetoric is employed, nuance is jettisoned, and catchy sloganeering reigns supreme. To believers in the primacy of intellectual honesty, the cacophony of protest can be disconcerting, the participants obstreperous. Will Wilkinson and Julian...
Illegal Immigration, the Seeds of Racism & the People We’ll Choose to Be
Incentives are a funny thing; they’ll sneak up on you if you’re not careful. Back in the late 90s, my team was hired by a large nursery to help them get their workers compensation...
The Costas Rant
I expect that this is going to be a somewhat unpopular post, judging by the feedback I’ve gotten on Twitter for suggesting it in the first place, but I want to hear what other...
A Financial Marshall Plan
A collapse of the Eurozone would be a disaster of 1929-like proportions. But what’s for us in the United States to do about it? The Eurozone is a bigger economy than the USA, and...
Everything Happens for a Reason, Part 2
(Part 1 can be read here.) In July of 2003 I went to Kenya on a commissioned promotional documentary project. Earlier that year I had been convinced to buy a Krasnogorsk K3 16mm camera, a “Russian...
Opposite day at the League!
There is a semi-grand blogospheric pseudo–tradition called opposite day. On opposite day… atheists do their best to argue that theism is correct and the theists do their best to argue that atheism is correct. Perhaps...
Religious Diversity Rocks
RTod’s post reminded me of this story. When I was in the second grade, there were three Jewish kids in our class. They didn’t celebrate Christmas. Now, in the first grade this didn’t mean...
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A project update, in no particular order: We formed a new company for the build: The Montauk Catamaran Company, LLC We move into our build-space — a barn in Bridgehampton — at the end...
A World of His Making: Newt Gingrich and the Far-Right Mind
I still think Romney’s going to win the nomination, but it’s going to be damn fun watching Gingrich make him work for it. Newt’s major advantage, of course — perhaps his only advantage —...
Joy and Rediscovering the Muppets
This weekend, we took our daughter to see The Muppets, her first time watching a movie in a theater. We chose the movie because we figured it would at least be tolerable for we...
An Open Letter to Those Worried About a Secular War on Christmas
First of all, let me start off by saying: Merry Christmas! And a Happy New Year as well! OK, now that we have that out of the way let me just cut right to...
Sad News
I wanted to offer my condolences to James Joyner for the sudden loss of his wife, Kimberly. James has long been a friend of this blog. To me personally, James has always been a...
You can carry a gun in New Mexico, but you can’t tuna fish.
“The Civil War had a profound impact on Holmes the professor and the jurist. His experience in bloody conflict made him an unsentimental realist who understood law as an expression of power, not the...
Pushkin: Eugene Onegin (1833) The Russian Dissolution
There is a superb scene in the third chapter of Alexander Pushkin’s novel-in-verse Eugene Onegin in which Tatiana, the landowner’s daughter character that Dostoevsky deemed a model of Russian womanhood, is sitting up all...
Cyber Monday Wars: PS3 vs. Xbox 360
So I’ve been a PC gamer for a long time. I haven’t owned a console in years and this Cyber Monday I’m thinking about buying one. Already there are some good deals out there....
Irrational, Imaginary, and Transcendental
( 3 , 4 , 5 ) ( 5, 12, 13) ( 7, 24, 25) ( 8, 15, 17) ( 9, 40, 41) (11, 60, 61) (12, 35, 37) (13, 84, 85) (16, 63, 65) (20,...
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!”
A passing yet timely thought as we survey the Western world’s welfare state: What was thought to be 50 years of flight has turned out merely to have been free fall. [Note: Originally posted...
