Daily Archive: February 15, 2012

The European Austerity Experiment…

Hello, dear reader! I’m currently still working on matters to do with piracy, but I thought I might touch briefly on new economic information coming out of Europe. Eurostat, the directorate responsible for European...

A North Carolina Non-Troversy?

[UPDATED 2/16; see end of post for update] [UPDATE II: 2/17 – Please see this piece of reporting from Glenn Beck’s site The Blaze.  Beck’s reporter, Madeleine Morgenstern, has done what the original stories...

The Duties of Downton Abbey

[Over at Blinded Trials, my co-blogger Rose wrote the following post about Downton Abbey, with further reflection on the duties of art.  Several commenters indicated it deserved a bit more attention, and would be...