Monthly Archive: March 2014
Freedom of Speech on the Backs of the World’s Poor
Nob’s Random Thoughts on the Weinstein Piece and Climate Change Morality.
Introduction!: The Poster Formerly Known as NewDealer
Chances are you already know Saul DeGraw, the long-time commenter and frequent guest-poster New Dealer. (If not, read about him here!) OT is pleased to welcome Saul as our newest regular contributor.
Monday Trivia, No. 156 [Michael Cain wins!]
Fifty U.S. cities. Presented in several unmarked brackets. I think this week’s puzzle is pretty easy, personally, but I rather like it notwithstanding.
Slow and steady wins the race, especially if it’s in bacon fat
I bet you can’t guess what the all-time most viewed post on Ordinary Times is.
Getting a Temperature Reading on Climate Change Politics
Gawker’s Adam Weinstein and the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Lawrence Torcello have each come out for the criminalization of climate-change denial. I’m curious to know what readers here think of this.
The Age of Context
The digital age is about to make another leap and is poised to change our lives in ways that far outpace the last twenty years of the Internet boom.
Heavenly!
Entirely different from last week’s selection, other than being music for boring, soulless, dressed-up white people.
At My Real Job: The State, the Clan, and Individual Liberty
In a society with a strong central state, you may be treated as an individual. Under the rule of the clan, you’ll get questions like: “Who are your parents?”
And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time by William Blake
Jaybird fails to properly read the lines of William Blake but discusses William Blake’s poem from the preface to Milton: A Poem for the humanities department of the Ordinary University anyway.
“The Habs lost to the Flyers, and someone else won the Cup”
Everything you need to know about life and love comes down to hockey.
Is this weird, funny, or sad?
The twitterverse’s rather bizarre right-and-left alignment to cancel the Colbert Report for racism.
Our College Problem: Payscale, Return on Investment, the Arts and Humanities and College Graduate Overproduction
New Dealer looks at the payscale.com report on which schools have the best return on investment.
Art as a Contest of Superlatives
If we are to have art, there must be a winner!!! Creon Critic pile drives into the cage-match .
Subsidized Birth Control and Matt Walsh’s Dubious Theory of Rights
Do you have a right to a product that must be provided to you through governmental coercion?
