Lessons Learned in the Workplace
A month ago I wrote my last front-page post about my sudden/unexpected career shift and the process of accepting it and moving forward. Since I normally average one front page post per week, the long layoff...
Monthly Archive: March 2013
Dignity, Empathy, and the Iraq War
So Digby’s reading these Iraq War mea culpas — and thank god for that because I tried before quickly determining I can’t stands no more: David Ignatius wrote his Iraq mea culpa today and...
Let’s police ourselves – it really works – The London Whale Edition.
I’ve started to take greater interest in JPMorgan’s London Whale trading scandal in light of the information that has been uncovered.
A Thing I Do Not Understand about Libertarians
An attempt to restore balance to the Force. Annotated for readers’ benefit.
Thursday Night Bar Fight #5: Brother, Can You Spare an Amendment?
Bad news, everyone! It turns out that due to its massive war debt at the end of its revolutionary war, the United States was unable to pay to own outright all future amendments to...
A Modest Feminist Proposal
by James Vonder Haar In a recent comment thread, NewDealer had this to say, quoting Zerlina Maxwell: “Teach young men to believe women who come forward and not to blame the victim.” This is...
The New Kids on the Block: East Asia’s New Leadership.
We’re now a quarter of the way through 2013, and I realized that I never got around to writing my power transition post I meant to do six months ago. The long and short...
Why Civil Marriage?
A commenter asks in response to Elias’ post on the problem with arguments against same sex marriage: As a person who is single and has taken care of one of my parents for 18...
The Good Tube: The History Channel Does the Bible
by Henshaw The Bible has been getting big ratings on The History Channel the past few weeks. Generally speaking, I’m a little weary of these types of TV events. Most entertainment pieces about the Bible have been...
The Problem with Arguments Against Same-Sex Marriage
Why even the most elegant or fairly put argument against gay marriage are doomed to failure.
Dansons la Capucine Mid-Week Jukebox And Open Thread
We veer off into bloody-nose fistfights far too often. So let’s take a song apart. “Dansons la Capucine” is a French childrens’ song. the lyrics follow: Dansons la capucine Y’a pas de pain chez...
CIA to get out of automated killing.
Or so says a new piece by Daniel Klaidman. This seems to generally track with how I viewed the Brennan nomination. Now let’s see how this combines with attempts to revise the AUMF or...
A progressive’s liberal’s answer on why we don’t do shareholder Activism
Jason started an interesting discussion in off the cuff, so I’d like to use an FP post to answer it. The reason you don’t see active takeovers or stock holding en masse as a...
Testing The Waters For An Ordinary Bookclub
Who wants to read Solzhenitsyn’s In the First Circle: The First Uncensored Edition? How many folks do you think it’d take for us to say “okay, let’s do that”? Sound off in comments. (We...
A Few Random Thoughts on “Growth and Opportunity”
The Republican National Committee released its long term assessment report yesterday. Called “Growth and Opportunity,” the document is intended to spell out the current state of the GOP (not good) and ideas on how...
Javarrrgh!
Using very simple language, can anyone explain what exactly is going on with Java/DHS/Microsoft/Google/#”the terrorists” and why this all necessitates my updating Java ten times a day?
A Few Thoughts on the Media’s Coverage of Steubenville
Among many others, I have an unfortunate habit of writing posts during the evenings that I ultimately don’t finish. By the time I’ve got a moment to return to the piece, it’s either old...
A Thing I Do Not Understand about Progressives
Here’s a thing I don’t get: Why aren’t way more progressives putting money into the stock market, and then politicizing the hell out of it?
What is it you actually want from your life as a “creative person”?
My friend and mentor Bob Wise atop his boat Loose Moose II on launch day This is from chapter 70 of Boat with an Open Mind: Loose Moose II “Staring with the two desks,...
