Can we all agree that this is out of bounds?
The story of the reaction to Zerlina Maxwell is…troubling to say the least.
Monthly Archive: March 2013
Teaching Social Norms, Part 4.5
I’m not counting this as a full entry in the “Teaching Social Norms” series primarily because it will function more of a bleg than an expository piece. The question is: Do food norms matter?...
Friday Jukebox: Danger Mouse, the Great and Mighty
Both of my parents got their undergraduate degrees in musical performance. My father got his PhD in music history. My wife was in the marching band in high school. My daughter has cycled through...
Antigenicity
Jason asks: “What are your predictions?” In the spirit of the early League, I’ll frame mine in terms of his: “All or nearly all cars will be driverless. As a result, transit will be...
Predictions
Within my remaining expected lifespan—that is, within 40-50 years, I expect the following. I am avoiding predictions about policy or politics because I find that in others these tend overwhelmingly to be projections of...
Ted Cruz is unserious…
…not that we needed more confirmation, but Ted Cruz has introduced the marked up version of Rand Paul’s non-binding resolution, and it’s a complete dud. It’s not a serious attempt to restrain or even...
Since I can’t seem to stop talking about controversial topics today…
Abuses in a J-1 student visa program. The exploitative nature of much of what passes for various types of visas and the quasi-indenture system connected to them makes me quite angry sometimes.
Thursday Night Bar Fight #3: The Thinking Person’s Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins Quandary
Note: Thursday Night Bar Fights is a new FP regular feature. In a nutshell, each Thursday I’ll offer up a topic for folks to chime in and argue about – but each topic will be...
So evidently capture feasibility is a big thing…
…as they just captured Bin Laden’s son-in-law in Jordan.
Rand Paul’s Misleading and Pointless Grandstanding….
In the midst of preparations for events during SXSW (more on that some other day) I noticed my twitter feed was alive with praise for Senator Rand Paul’s “stand” on civil liberties. Curious on...
Wednesday Night Jukebox – Stompin’ Tom, RIP
Canadian music legend Stompin’ Tom Connors passed away Wednesday. He was 77. His contribution to Canadian culture has been well-documented, and the outpouring of grief on social media this evening speaks to what he...
Cult of the CEO, Feminism Edition
One of my pet peeves, one I will just never be able to fix and should probably have dropped ages ago, is how bourgeois so much elite journalism is today. Yes, I know it’s...
FYIGAQ, Better Of Ted edition
Imagine you are magically transported back to April 21st, 1889. You find yourself in the town of Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary. Before you lies the one-day old Adolph Hitler, unattended in his crib....
This Is How It Felt
This is how I felt nine hours after you were born. You are asleep on my chest, a fine little miracle in a striped swaddling blanket. Of course you are a miracle. Parents always...
That Icon of American Consumerism
by Mad Rocket Scientist In an effort to NOT be just another “Gun Guy” (seriously, I have many other interests, firearms are just a hobby), I thought I’d post about something completely different. New...
For Anyone Interested
In addition to writing at the League, I’m now contributing to First Thoughts on a similar range of subjects — the books, movies, music, and ideas that strike my fancy — that I write about here at...
At My Real Job: Huemer, Intuitionism, and Anarchy
The state does many things that none of us would ever tolerate in our friends or neighbors. If everyone judged the state and its agents by the same moral standards that they used for...
A Small News Story Worth Watching Unfold
It will probably never change minds, of course. After all, each side of the aisle will have news organs that “prove” their side is right. Still, the developments in the Menendez prostitution scandal might...
