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Generally speaking, parents who tend to espouse more conservative political views tend to parent their children in a way that is more “big government”*, while parents who tend to espouse more liberal political views...
Daily Archive: July 27, 2012
Friday Early Afternoon Jukebox: Ignored For No Good Reason
When I was a teenager, I remember thoroughly enjoying Radiohead’s “Creep”, a song I remember thinking would be a good effort from a soon forgotten one-hit wonder. I was precocious like that. Then, a...
Scalia Worries Televising SCOTUS Proceedings Will Misinform
Actually, Antonin Scalia is right. I do not write those words often, or lightly. And it is actually Kevin Drum who comes off as glib and dismissive in this recent post on the Supreme...
Evil at Dawn
At the New Yorker, Rollo Roming argues that calling James Holmes and/or Jerry Sandusky “evil” raises more questions than it answers. The concept of evil has been tossed into “confusion” and “tatters” by the...
Off-Season
Like most sports, hunting has its off-season. For me this runs basically from March until September, with a brief interlude for turkey hunting in April. My off-season follows a predictable pattern of rest, review, planning...
Well hello there…
(This introduction will be conducted entirely in the 4th person singular, a grammatical person invented by Metta World Peace when, in attempting to speak about himself in the 3rd person, accidently referred to himself...
Weird Policy Proposal: The A-Tax-Rebate
Fellow Gentleman, Connor Williams did an awesome post on education reform in the US. One thing that kept cropping up in the discussion was that school choice didn’t really solve one of the key...
