The Tragedy of the Commons
by M.A. The concepts of a “Free Market” and the idea of an unregulated market producing whatever gains an advocate is looking for, or advancing a policy that liberals or conservatives (depending on the...
Monthly Archive: November 2012
Grand Old Podcast (Errr, Leaguecast)
At around 9pm EST, several of us will be doing a podcast tonight devoted to the election results and the ramifications of said results on the GOP going forward. The voices included will primarily...
Sailing Away to Irrelevance, Part III: Obama and the United Nations are Coming to Take Away Your Guns
Last June as I was live-blogging three hours of pre-recorded primetime FOX News shows, I saw a segment that accused the President of the United States of treason. In that segment, Sean Hannity and...
Fifty Shades of Purple – Blue States Are American, Too
One thing that was not deeply discussed in last night’s Leaguecast is that this election demonstrates that the GOP is at a huge structural disadvantage in the Electoral College, as it racks up huge –...
The Elephant in the Room
~by Dennis Sanders Within a few moments of knowing President Obama had secured the 270 electoral votes needed to win a second term, the explanations and recriminations had begun. The two that bubbled up...
Paradise Lost: “Eves, Apples, Adam Smashers!”
[Note: Oh, hey, how’s it going?] Brother Jaybird has an adage about never mistaking matters of aesthetics for those of morality when forming public policy. But I wonder if it goes the other way...
Holbo on Libertarianism and Propertarianism
Bleeding Heart Libertarians has an interesting symposium going about left-libertarianism, mainly of the Roderick Long/Gary Chartier variety. I’ve been following closely…
Three Things to be Thinking About When it Comes to Petraeus et al.
When I heard the story break last week I burst into ironic chuckles (yea, cause that’s the kind of person I am). Imagine if Anakin Skywalker had fallen not because of fear and deep pre-adolescent psychological...
Faulty Polls and Self-Offsetting Tax Cuts
After a Twitter exchange with Tod today, I decided to finally pull the trigger on a post I’ve been considering for a few days. Read on! — As nigh-on every denizen of the political blogosphere...
Game Of Thrones Appendix!
The astucious MikeSchilling has put together a spectacular essay detailing the breeding habits of the Spanish Royalty. If you’re familiar with how Game of Thrones is pretty much a retelling of the War of...
We interrupt this acrimony to bring you MON TIKI’s first taste of Block Island Sound
It was unseasonably warm here in Montauk today. The ongoing gasoline issues and last week’s nor’easter had prevented my uncle from coming over from East Hampton for my older daughter’s birthday, so today we...
“Romney Was Too Liberal to Win”
Another myth busted. Now can we please stop talking about how Obama won by “supressing” voter turnout, or that Romney lost because he couldn’t get conservatives to come out for him due to his...
On Markets
by James Hanley In my experience “discussing” libertarian ideas with liberals I’ve noticed that the term “free markets” is a real bugaboo. Whether it’s the smug question, “what is a free market,” posed as...
A Question About Same Sex Marriage
I hate to post two things back-to-back this morning so please forgive… In preparation for tonight’s Leaguecast (more on that coming from Will) the following question strikes me as important and I would like feedback...
Walking Dead Discussion Thread: S3 E5, “Say the Word”
*Spoiler Alert: Do not read this post or the comment section if you have not seen the show. Also, for those who have read the comics, please do not discuss plot elements not revealed on the...
Numeracy, Hedonism and Journalism: A Place-Holder
For those of you playing along at home, there will be some required reading for this upcoming post. In chronological order: At The Atlantic: Hard Core, by Natasha Vargas-Cooper Is That a Boiled Frog...
Annual Fund-Raising Drive Time!
It’s that wonderful time of year again when I post our annual fund-raising drive. If you enjoy your time spent here please consider donating via the Paypal link below. If you can’t do Paypal,...
Treme, Season 3, Episode 8, “Don’t You Leave Me Here”
DON'T YOU LEAVE ME HERE by Jelly Roll Morton – NEW ORLEANS MEMORIES 1939Watch this video on YouTube Grumble. It is getting more difficult to separate the good from the bad. If it wasn’t...
