Day: December 23, 2011

GOP 2012: Worst Candidate Batch Ever? IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-frick.salisbury-cathedral-from-the-bishops-garden-14

GOP 2012: Worst Candidate Batch Ever?

Tom Van Dyke December 23, 2011

It’s now Conventional Wisdom that this 2012 GOP bunch is the total pits, but objectively, the 2008...

Power in (Small) Numbers IFRL-Mindiv-travis-gergen-193909-unsplash

Power in (Small) Numbers

Elias Isquith December 23, 2011

Responding to the recent decision by House Republicans to agree to a two-month extension of the payroll...

The Ballot I Will Cast in the GOP Primary IFRL-Mindiv-sleepanywhere

The Ballot I Will Cast in the GOP Primary

Tod Kelly December 23, 2011

Years ago on This American Life they devoted an entire episode ruminating on fiascos. In a segment...

Reasonable-ness, by what standard? IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-met.panoramic-view-of-the-palace-and-gardens-of-versailles

Reasonable-ness, by what standard?

Murali December 23, 2011

By request (or at least approval), I have produced a post on reasonable-ness. Note that this has...

Dying on That Hillock IFRL-TLC-Scenery-aurelien-romain-1351881-unsplash

Dying on That Hillock

Christopher Carr December 23, 2011

“In normal times, evil would be fought by good. But in times like these, it must be fought...

Brandon Berg on The Department of Good ThingsOf course, we’ve discussed the whole “people graduating without being proficient at reading or math”…
LeeEsq in reply to Slade the Leveller on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025It makes sense when you realize that a lot of these people don't care for Palestinians per se but ma…
LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Harvard's report on anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in the wake of 10/7 is out: he antisemitism repor…
Philip H in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Let’s hope Texas continues its streak of judicial activist independence and ignores him.
Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Because we as a nation need more reasons to commit political violence: https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/0…
LeeEsq in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025I still think that a big reason for the current problems is the decline of malls and hangout culture…
Slade the Leveller in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025That was one of the more bizarre electoral positions in 2024. DJT has openly broadcast his position…
Jaybird in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025I've been thinking about this some more and the issue of hanging out with multiple AIs is still opaq…
LeeEsq in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025It occurs to me that the Protestors care about Palestinians in the same way that Evangelicals care a…
Slade the Leveller in reply to Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Indeed. It's occurred to me, and it's really no surprise, either, that the glee with which law enfor…