Medicaid in Oregon: Does it Really Matter?
God help me, I just don’t understand conservatives sometimes. I disagree with them most of the time, but I usually understand where they’re coming from. But sometimes my best acts of imagination pale in...
Daily Archive: May 5, 2013
In The First Circle Bookclub!
“When I say peacetime, I mean before Soviet power.” (Our kickoff post is here, and our discussion posts are here, here, here, and here.) One thing that gets mentioned a handful of times is...
a brief note on why you’re all about to be soooo sick of me very soon (assuming you weren’t already)
Like Erik, I’ve been practically invisible around here for the past month or two. (I missed two Bar Fights in a row!) Unlike Erik, I don’t have a mega-cool and talent-revealing singer-songwriter vid to...
Value, Utility, and Justification
by Stillwater In a recent post which is now unfortunately closed (“Something, Something … Petard”), James Hanley and I (and Shazbot!) engaged in a friendly dispute ostensibly about the meaning of the word “value”...
Being in the world
by zic This a story for Kyle. It’s a true story, meaning it really happened. But it is also story, for it’s my honest recall of what happened; and I know more than most,...
Ukip, the British Tea Party that’s Reshaping British Politics
by Brian John Spencer For Americans to understand British politics as it is practiced today, they need to understand Ukip. Why? Because the Eurosceptic, catch-all protest party is driving the agenda and forcing British...
There is More to the Gun Debate than Gun Culture and Stats
Our own Mike Dwyer lays out an interesting argument about the appropriateness of children being trained to use guns. The comment section there has an interesting conversation about this and other issues. But there...
