Daily Archive: September 20, 2012

I think I’m doing it wrong…

And getting people out of neighborhoods where it collects seems to be a cure. Interesting to note that the study actually didn’t support the thesis that environmental conditions would improve things like income or...

…by making sure they’re not moochers. Or something.

The Tea Party’s page on Facebook is taking issue with an Obama campaign ad. The comments thread is not what I’d call awesome. I will offer three rejoinders. (edited to add) Trizzlor wins the...

From Gawker, via Facebook… I can’t recall seeing a better campaign ad, ever, and I didn’t even watch The West Wing.

Any competent political scientist — or anyone with a working knowledge of arithmetic — can tell you that individual votes are almost never decisive to the outcome of an election. The popular press loves...

(This post cross-posted between Front Page and Mindless Diversions.  I’ll open comments on the former and close them on the latter just to keep things neat and tidy.) Recently I asked folks to submit questions that...

My colleague Jason Kuznicki argues that those who take charity should suffer a social stigma. Underlying this argument is the unspoken assumption that social stigmas are a good thing generally. I’m not convinced that...

This morning I was able to watch our latest Leaguecast and enjoyed the conversation on public reason. There are a lot of takeaways, but I wanted to quickly speak to a point raised in the conversation. Around...

Now, of course, like all stories this is a story that may or may not reflect the reality. Seriously, though, if there’s any truth to this… it’s the sort of thing that makes me...

Here is the Raw Footage of our panel discussion on Public reason in the context of a pluralistic society. So What do you guys think?