Monthly Archive: July 2012

I suppose due to the publicity surrounding larger rulings, I missed the courts striking down President Obama’s Gainful Employment rule: The for-profit college industry, long under attack by Obama administration bureaucrats as well as...

Post thoughts here. Lots of small changes. Still more to come. Thanks to Will and Nob and Johanna for all their work, and to everyone who has offered up their advice so far.

BobbyC asks me some questions about ethics and political theory. I answer below the fold.

I have recently come across two groups, which are, frankly speaking, Space Awesome! Ladies and gentlemen of the league, I give you Lacuna Coil… …and Halestorm

Traditionally, the Fourth of July is when the wild wineberry and blackberry vines (mostly wineberries, which are a bit of a controversial topic, it would seem) in the woods behind my house start to...

I don’t often follow one story exclusively for more than a couple of posts, but I’ve focused on the story of Romney’s pre-2002 relationship with Bain Capital because I think it is — and...

The guys over at Bleeding-Heart Libertarians can always be relied on to post something that agrees with some of my kookier ideas.

Almost Unreasonable Introduction I think that I’d like to write that almost everybody involved in the Jerry Sandusky scandal is a weapons grade asshole, that the insistence upon the superiority of a football program...

…over at Slow Tuesday Night. I look forward to everyone else’s.

After finishing Ubik, I realized that I’d been reading Philip K. Dick in the wrong order. Ubik is foundational. It belongs at the start, not near the end, of one’s reading of the author....

Ever since Mother Jones‘ David Corn and Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall dug up some near-decade-old Security and Exchange Commissiond (SEC) filings which indicated Mitt Romney’s ties to Bain Capital persisted long after his campaign...

I’ve been tinkering. If things are broken or look funny or disappear, that’s why. I’ve got comments back on old posts, and we’re working on making the logo more catchy, and then it’s off...

DirecTV and Viacom have taken their contract dispute to the death cage. DirecTV’s 20 million satellite TV subscribers have lost 17 channels produced by Viacom in a dispute about the fees paid to broadcast...