Wrong!
For the second year in a row, the voters have elected the wrong man for the American League Most Valuable Player award. Miguel Cabrera won his second MVP in a row, again besting Mike...
Monthly Archive: November 2013
Fantasy Football Week In Review: Week 10
We’re running down into the home stretch. And by “home stretch”, we mean that we’re beginning to be able to figure out who is mathematically eliminated from the playoffs.
Linky Friday #46
This Week: Education, Progress, Housing, Jobs, America, and Utah. (LF will be taking another break for a week or two.)
ENDA’s Game
In which the necessity of a law is politically dismissed because of a massive public misunderstanding by a man with an eerily orange face.
Defending Richard Cohen
Lovers and haters both are defending Richard Cohen’s eye-raising and seemingly racist Washington Post column. What is needed, the defenders say, is context, a more generous reading, and a retroactive editing of a few poorly chosen words. Tod Kelly does just that.
Wikileaks on TPP
From the press release: Today, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the largest-ever economic treaty, encompassing nations...
The Sandwich, Two Days Later
Once upon a time, if I wanted to go out for a sandwich, I would say “I would like to go out for a sandwich” and I would go out and get a sandwich. Now, if I want to go out for a sandwich, I say “I would like to go out for a sandwich. I think I will, within the next few days, go out and get a sandwich.”
A new front in the war on men
Currying favour from the cliterati, feminist stooge Drew Gough is taking aim at masculinity, suggesting we succumb to our double-x overlords:
Babylonia!
We’re about to start Season Two of Babylon 5. Kickoff post for the inaugural episode, “Points of Departure” will be up next Monday. If anyone wants to lay claim to the following episode, “Revelations”,...
What’s the Difference Between Richard Cohen and John Derbyshire?
Tod Kelly argues that there’s only one real difference: NRO was willing to part ways with Derbyshire for his embarrassingly offensive racism, while the Washington Post seems to be OK with Cohen’s.
Stupid Tuesday questions, Neil Patrick Harris edition
What can I say? I thought it looked cool at nineteen.
Bloc the Vote II: Geographic representation makes no sense
No one would allocate votes by region if they were designing a democracy from scratch using available information technologies.
A Side Note About Licensing
Since James and the good Doctor are engaging in multiple good discussions about licensing and rents, I thought I’d throw a side note out there that isn’t being discussed in the (quite good, by...
