Batman Goes to the Doctor
The first 10 seconds of this makes me wonder if the script writers for Batman: The Dark Knight Rises read our site. Maybe Russell has a copyright case?
Monthly Archive: July 2012
Hunters and the NRA
Lily Raff McCaulou is part of a new generation of hunters that has come about in the last few years. These hunters are an offshoot of the locavore movement which is made up of...
Where Bain Ends And Romney Begins
Josh Marshall’s got a potentially big scoop for the 2012 campaign, one that could make Mitt Romney’s summer even hotter and longer than it’ll be for the rest of us. Democrats have put forth a concerted...
How Not to Do A Survey
So one of the hot topics on Memeorandum today is a study by a Tea-Party affiliated group called the Doctor and Patient Medical Association claiming that, as the Daily Caller’s headline proclaims, “83% of...
Nars and the Real Girls
Seventeen magazine recently patted itself on the back for responding to a petition drive led by an enterprising teenage girl, Julia Bluhm. The magazine now will present only non-Photoshopped girls in its editorial spreads and covers. This...
Why you should totally get an HSA, but Uncle Sam shouldn’t
First of all, a promise to everyone rolling their eyes that this will be my last post on health care for a while. I had intended to give it a rest after my last...
Obama And The Bush Tax Cuts: Once Again, With Feeling
Even before he was inaugurated, the so-called Bush Tax Cuts (BTCs) of 2001 and 2003 loomed over the Obama Presidency. On the campaign trail, Obama promised to extend the cuts for those making under...
Mitt Romney: A Known Unknown
Finding the perfect middle ground between saying too much and looking like you’ve something to hide: From the start of the campaign, this has been one of Mitt Romney’s most important tasks. Even this...
As it turns out, half may be an overstatement
This essay was originally intended for Mindless Diversions but, as you can probably tell, it veered off into dangerous territory fairly quickly… so I’m putting it here. In the 1950’s and 1960’s, there was...
Sunday Afternoon Jukebox, Poem & Open Thread – Summer Wedding Edition
It’s not everyday that one of our regular readers decides to take the plunge and sashay on down the aisle. (Or at least I don’t think it is. Perhaps it happens all the time,...
Putting Off Chores
So in my listening to some Dubstep (which I consider research), I stumbled across the soundtrack to Sucker Punch which, I have come to find out, is actually a movie about Project MKUltra and, specifically, Monarch...
Increased Health Insurance Competition Doesn’t Do What You Think It Does
As a principled pragmatic, I often reject the ‘Right vs. Left’ or ‘Tyranny vs. Freedom’ debates that political parties and moneyed interests frame for us. I find that our best solutions are usually arrived...
Indulging your inner policy wonk.
I was going to ask everybody what their ideal, but realistic healthcare reform proposal would be. The basic point was to show that once we ignored political viability as a constraint on practical proposals,...
Theory, Meet Practice
Rose writes: “My ethical leanings are reasonably anti-consequentialist. That is, I don’t think what makes shoplifting a soda right or wrong is a matter of the unhappiness it causes.”
Kindergarten: Crook Creator
It’s amazing to me that kindergarten remains a controversial subject, but a specimen in one of those great laboratories of governmental ideas, the state legislatures, has managed to come up with this…
Tinkering
So I’ve obviously been tinkering a great deal, and I apologize if your sub-blog is weird right now. I’ll get to it! I promise! I’m not sure if this will be the redesign, or...
Friday Afternoon Jukebox: A Cover That Improves The Original
Covers are a tricky thing. They’re often nightmarish visions of the original work, twisting and diluting what had been perfectly fine to begin with in some vague attempt to pay tribute. All you have...
A call to everyone in Washington DC… nay, the entire Eastern seaboard!!!
I plan on heading to DC the weekend of September 14th to do some blogging on the 2012 Values Voter Summit. So I’m giving a heads up to anyone and everyone that might want...
So… Ubik
Did anyone else read Ubik? Anyone else planning to post? If so I’ve got some thoughts I’ll write up over the weekend. But I’m concerned it would just be me talking to myself.
…He Finds His Allies A Bunch Of Crackpots
Judge Richard Posner succinctly iterates my own thoughts about the Supreme Court leaks specifically and more generally the GOP and the conservative movement. Money quote: “I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started...
