What’s Love Got to Do With It? (Unsolicited Advice from a Rich Buddha)
Will Wilkinson, the day after Steve Jobs’ death: As an undergrad I was an art major. Frankly, few of my fellow art majors were talented enough to make a living at it, even...
Monthly Archive: April 2012
Idiots and Maniacs
Tony Comstock, writing about his “Sputnik Moment“: Okay, I pretty much wonder “What the fish have I done with my life?” every time I have a set major back (which is pretty much...
Characters And Records: Defining The President In 2012
Hey, wow, it’s Joe Klein and he’s being almost completely right about something:
A Brave Foot Forward
Nicole Pamby is an old blogging friend of mine. She mostly blogs about her career as a freelance writer but today she shared some of her personal life.
U.C. Davis Investigation…
…confirms common sense about that atrocious pepper spray incident last fall. Added touches: the cops acted against orders; they were untrained and unauthorized to use the spray; and — what else? — a sex...
Intellectual Property: Abstract vs. Natural Right, Part V: The Conclusioning
I know. People have been asking themselves for weeks, “So, what were all these posts about, anyway? What’s your conclusion, Pat?” Well… two people, maybe? Okay, here’s my distillation of them, for those two...
Weekend Cooking Project : Grilled Whole Fish
The weekends coming up fast, and if you’re like us then today or tomorrow you’ll be shopping for things to eat over beer, wine and cocktails. So if you haven’t already got your grocery...
Talking About The Talk
I admit, I was taken aback when I first heard about “The Talk”. I mean, I suppose I knew that this phenomenon probably existed in a plurality or maybe even a majority of cases…...
The Internet is Awesome
Nine-year old Caine Monroy spent his summer vacation building a cardboard arcade inside of his father’s used auto parts store. And then the Internet got involved. I don’t know how I missed this story...
Hi-Dee Hi-Dee Hi-Dee Ho! – or, continued musings on relativism in art
By Sam Wilkinson In my (unpopular) arguments about the relativism with which I approach art – that all art is equal, that all consumers are equal, and that nobody is substantively wrong – I...
The Meaning Of Santorum
The Atlantic‘s David A. Graham thinks there are three major ways in which the now-suspended Santorum campaign diminished Mitt Romney’s chances of besting the President: 1. He has pulled Romney to the right on key...
A Peek Across the Political Multiverse
by Renee Hi there! Welcome to my sci-fi-political lab. That’s right! We use 24th century technology today to answer those tough questions about politics. No, I’m not a political scientist or a physicist –...
Strawmen Tell No Tales: The Sophistry of Victor Davis Hanson
Hello again dear reader. Why yes, this is another post in as many days… While I rant and rage in comments, I try to keep polemics out of my front page posts and stick...
This is something. Therefore this must be done.
New York recently passed a law banning sex offenders from online gaming networks. No XBox Live, no World of Warcraft, no nothin’. Now, without getting into issues of Romeo/Juliet situations that end up with...
My Two Cents (Worth only half a cent 10 years from now…)
The biggest and greatest village preoccupation over the past several years has been the national debt. This has been helped by the criminal mismanagement (and I do mean this quite literally, if Greece were...
Beyond Derbyshire
In Oklahoma, this story has been unfolding for the past few days: TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Two men were arrested Sunday in a shooting rampage that left three people dead and terrorized Tulsa’s black...
Eating Peas
Fellow Ordinaries Elias Isquith and Mike Dwyer have fired the opening shots in our discussion about the latest budget proposal from that fiscal firebrand from Janesville, Paul Ryan, and Tod Kelly (who has just been...
Enough already with the “Socialist this,” and the “Social Darwinist that”
One of the big topics raging through the Blogoshere this week stems from the “thinly veiled social Darwinism” meme that the left is currently test-ballooning. Jennifer Rubin, Robert Wright, the NYT, Beck’s Blaze, Red...
Role Reversals
Elias’ latest post gave me a little epiphany this morning. He mentions social Darwinism as a feature of the Paul Ryan budget proposal, the not-so-subtle subtext of course is that conservatives believe in social Darwinism
