Treme, Season 3, Episode 9, “Poor Man’s Paradise”
I'll fly away – Live outside the Old U.S. Mint, New OrleansWatch this video on YouTube I’ve argued through my recaps this season that we’re seeing a very defined cleavage between the behavior of...
Monthly Archive: November 2012
Windows 8 Bleg
I just got a new laptop, which came with Windows 8 and Explorer 10. I am frustrated. Things are different now. I’ve managed to stumble into a desktop environment like I was used to...
Blinded Trials Bait: An Ethics Quandary
Updated Below I had an exchange at a large retailer this weekend that made me question some of the struts in my own ethical framework. Intellectually, I’m having a hard time piecing together whether...
Misusing the Social Contract
There is a certain kind of libertarian who says that they see no reason to abide by XYZ laws/ pay taxes because they didn’t sign any social contract. Hell, I don’t even have to...
Romney Logic
Mitt Romney believes that he lost the presidential election because many voters (as many as 47%, maybe more!) who benefit from government programs were incapable of basing their votes on anything other than their interest in maintaining...
When You Can’t Score an Autism Diagnosis
This is part of a series I’m writing on being the parent of a child with severe multiple disabilities at Blinded Trials. A couple of months ago, a mother of a child with the...
Election 2012 Wasn’t Close. Here’s Why It Matters.
Note: Here’s a post that I began some time ago and that is increasingly losing relevancy as post-election developments multiply. But it ended up being rather long and, frankly, the idea of having spent...
Assassin’s Creed III: The Greatest Threat to Civilization
… or something… I guess. Take it away, Globe and Mail:
Ain’t Love Grand? (a Tony Comstock guest post)
I am on the Hampton Jitney, west-bound. There’s just been a little to do, a dust up if you will, at the Amaganett stop. “What happened?” you ask. Well it seems that a fellow...
Sailing Away to Irrelevance, Part IV: The Benghazi Scandal vs. The Benghazi Scandal™
On election night at Fox News there was one question that was asked over and over by desperate anchors, experts and reporters alike: Why had the American people ignored the Benghazi story? Or to...
Ibra!
I know most of you all around here find soccer unwatchable and soccer posts around here tend to result in a giant yawn from the commentariat. But I submit that if you do not...
Thermomixed Up Strikes Back! (The Work and Dignity Edition)
S/V INTEMPERANCE, November 2009, somewhere between Montauk Point and Bermuda “You can’t throw bull with the ocean, she won’t listen.” — Harold “Dynamite” Payson, Build the New Instant Boats (Previously, Parts 1, 2, 3 , 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8) In...
The Meaning of Human Sexuality: A Philosophical Query
I don’t suppose I’ll be courting much controversy by saying that human sexuality has historical meaning. The sexual revolution would have made no sense had sex meant nothing to anyone. It was a reaction...
On “Free” Markets
by James Hanley Part II: Dedicated to all the quiet folks who read part I. I’m still astounded that despite my repeated disavowals some folks were certain that I was arguing that that modern...
Let’s Deal the Cards!
by Mike Schilling The Monty Hall Problem is a great piece of recreational mathematics, because it’s very simple to state, doesn’t require any advanced mathematical tools to analyze, and has a solution that’s both...
Disruption Junction, What’s Your Function? Part 2
From The California Public Utilities Commission: Lyft, SideCar, and Uber were cited $20,000 each for violations of state law, including operating as passenger carriers without evidence of public liability and property damage insurance coverage...
The New York Times: Two Days Behind The League Of Ordinary Gentlemen
Briefly noted — the New York Times today went live with a five-essay “Room for Debate” regarding the future of the Republican Party. While I commend the Gray Lady for getting a diverse panel of well-known...
On Twitter Avatars
A recent twitter exchange with James Bennet, combined with a recent change to my twitter avatar causes me to gather up some thoughts about the way we use photographs as a part of our...
After This, More Ketchup. I Swear.
Here’s some deep in the woods philosophical stuff. It may only be of interest to libertarians, and maybe not even to them.
