Amazon will eat your children
Amazon.com is running a long con that will someday make Walmart seem like the friendly neighborhood merchant.
Monthly Archive: September 2013
Monoprogramming
Burt Likko’s been watching a little more television than usual. And he has a question.
Tell the developers, the political angles and the strippers they can all kiss Jeff Wagner’s butt
The rest of this election season’s political ads will have a hard time living up to this gem from the Minneapolis mayoral hopeful.
Nazism is Dead, Long Live Marx
I recently wrote about how radical intellectuals are treated as ipso facto irresponsible or abhorrent in middlebrow American ideas magazines where little comprehension of their thought is even attempted. I was talking about the liberal-ish...
Sailing to Irrelevance: Irrelevant is the New Normal
Moderates and independents keep waiting for national defeats to force the GOP to change their ways. Tod Kelly asks if the party might be happy to stay right where it is, electability be damned.
About Those Six or So Reasons Not To Send Your Daughter to College
Raylan Alleman believes you shouldn’t send your daughter to college. What is he thinking?
Two, Maybe Three, Questions
1.) At what age would you say it becomes inappropriate for a father or other male caregiver to bring his daughter/female charge with him into a shared men’s bathroom to relieve his needs? 2.)...
The Case for Dumb, Part II
The second of a two-part series in which Michael Cain looks at smart electric grids and public policy.
Linky Friday #39
This week: Diversity, Anglosphere, Death, Partisanship, Technology, Entertainment, Women, States, Health, and Education. And now, Videos!
White Collar Machismo
“We can’t get mothers to work more hours. We’ve tried, and failed, for forty years. Mothers won’t bite for a simple reason: if they work 55 hours a week, they will leave home at, say, 8:30 and return at 8:30 every day of the workweek, assuming an average commute time. Most moms have this one little hang-up: they want to see their children awake. Increasingly, many fathers do, too.”
Thursday Night Bar Fight #14: For I am your Tod, and you shall have no other Tods before me
Given the chance to play God, what commandments would you give to a primitive people looking to build a civilization?
Is the Stacked Ranking of Employees Actually Bad?
Vikram examines the usefulness of grading employees on a rigid curve as practiced by General Electric and Microsoft.
