Drinkin’ on a Friday Night Jukebox and Open Thread
So. I’m drinkin’ on a Friday night. Here are the two songs I’ve been listening to: And: Talk about what you like to listen to when you’ve been drinkin’ in comments. Or, heck, treat...
Daily Archive: May 10, 2013
Rick Perry’s fraudulent attempts to “make college affordable and more efficient”.
I figured this should have a reference on the front page. A post by fellow LBJ-alum David Wogan on the Scientific American blog examining the claims made in the NPR piece linked by Ethan.
How do you interpret a constitution?
The biggest cause of confusion faced by Originalists—the folks who think the Constitution means what it originally did in the late 1700s—isn’t the one you’d probably guess at first. You’d probably guess it has to do with how we can know what 18th century Americans were thinking. And how can anyone know what Americans more than two and a quarter centuries ago thought “due process” was, or what a “reasonable search and seizure” was? We can hardly get consensus on […]
How do you interpret a constitution?
The biggest cause of confusion faced by Originalists—the folks who think the Constitution means what it originally did in the late 1700s—isn’t the one you’d probably guess at first. You’d probably guess it has...
Time for Heads to Roll at the White House and IRS
As regular readers know, I’m trying to focus on writing a series on the problems with ascending ideology in America. As such, I’ve been trying to avoid posting things that fall squarely into the “grossly...
Driving Blind: Long Lost Books and University Crooks
A segment at NPR outlines the fight in Texas to transform the state university system. Governor Perry and private sector elites want to make higher education in the state more affordable and efficient,
1,776 Feet
Construction workers bolted a communications spire atop the New World Trade Center in Manhattan today, bringing the still-under-construction skyscraper to its final height of 1,776 feet. Rightly: New York has rebuilt, and are taller and better than before....
What the Hell am I supposed to make of the new Pew report?
I find myself seriously puzzled by a new report from the Pew Research Center, which shows that Hispanic high school graduates are now enrolling in college at a greater rate than white graduates. Or...
The Only Comment Possible on the Tsarnaev Burial Dilemma
Creon: You alone, of all the people in Thebes, see things that way. Antigone: They see it just that way but defer to you and...
Survey for League Roleplayers.
To the peeps who expressed an interest I need some questions answered for my own information. You can either post the response here, or if you’d prefer email them to me. The responses will...
