Day: April 9, 2012

Beyond Derbyshire IFRL-TLC-Scenery-jose-ignacio-garcia-zajaczkowski-1328991-unsplash

Beyond Derbyshire

Erik Kain April 9, 2012

In Oklahoma, this story has been unfolding for the past few days: TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Two...

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Eating Peas

Burt Likko April 9, 2012

Fellow Ordinaries Elias Isquith and Mike Dwyer have fired the opening shots in our discussion about the latest...

Enough already with the “Socialist this,” and the “Social Darwinist that” IFRL-NaPP-Space-rawpixel-id-283683

Enough already with the “Socialist this,” and the “Social Darwinist that”

Tod Kelly April 9, 2012

One of the big topics raging through the Blogoshere this week stems from the “thinly veiled social...

Role Reversals IFRL-NaPP-Retro-800px-France_in_XXI_Century._Air_battle

Role Reversals

Mike Dwyer April 9, 2012

Elias’ latest post gave me a little epiphany this morning. He mentions social Darwinism as a feature of...

Paul Ryan Strikes Again: The Reihan Salam Edition IFRL-Mindiv-pietro-tebaldi-431077-unsplash

Paul Ryan Strikes Again: The Reihan Salam Edition

Elias Isquith April 9, 2012

Reihan Salam is, best as I can tell, the smartest right-wing pundit of his generation. He also...

North in reply to Michael Cain on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointOh I agree; I noted as such in my original comment. But I can't help but notice that all the stories…
Dark Matter in reply to Michael Cain on From the NY Times: DOGE Savings “85 percent less than its objective”Military spending is roughly half of that $1.6T discretionary spending I think Musk didn't review th…
Michael Cain in reply to Dark Matter on From the NY Times: DOGE Savings “85 percent less than its objective”Do those numbers put DOD and military spending done by other parts of the government in discretionar…
Michael Cain in reply to North on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointTexas, and to a somewhat lesser extent Florida, build because they can sprawl. Where are the desirab…
Dark Matter on From the NY Times: DOGE Savings “85 percent less than its objective”All federal discretionary spending combined is $1.6T. This includes what most of us view as primary…
North in reply to Michael Cain on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointThat is a fair critique to a very broad blanket statement but Florida and Texas are, iirc, the large…
Dark Matter in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025If it were still scientifically accurate, then maybe it would be. Or maybe we've become more accepti…
Jaybird in reply to KenB on Saturday Morning Gaming: Hollow KnightI am *EXCEPTIONALLY* irritated. I watched a youtube that said "fight them like *THIS*" and I went an…
Jaybird in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025My Ethics professor freshman year (so, 1991-1992) was approximately one jillion years old and he exp…
KenB in reply to Dark Matter on The Emergency Ordinary Times FaceliftLet me add my voice to the choir -- thanks much Will for carving out a chunk of your vacation for us…