Monthly Archive: March 2014
93 years and a bit of change….
My grandfather, Tamotsu Akimoto died on the 12th. He’d lived through 3 Emperors, a World War, an Olympics in Tokyo (and the approval of another!), and died peacefully in his sleep. His was the...
The Irrational Logic of Christ
Should the total, unconditional self-emptying exemplified by Christ be the logic of the Christian life?
Linky Friday #60
Links! Click on them and go places! This week: Web, Psychology, Economics, Education, Labor, and America.
Preach It, Brother Nate!
Statistics wizard Nate Silver talks about the re-launch of FiveThirtyEight on ESPN, political punditry, and burritos.
Andrew Napolitano and the Pollardism of Slave Condemnation
Could Abraham Lincoln really have sidestepped the entire American Civil War by using the government’s power of property condemnation to buy all of the slaves in the South and then free them?
Concepts Hard To Explain
There are some concepts my sixteen-month old daughter understands. There are other concepts she does not.
Inequality is more than a just an ideological cudgel
Liberals disagree with Adolph Reed Jr.’s Harper’s essay less than they think.
Orbology!
Small Gods from “Next day the ship rounded a headland” to “And your God is a rock — and we know about rock.”
A Geek in Mourning
I love Science Fiction television, except when the show is cancelled. This is the story of a geek mourning the end of a beloved series.
SIHTAF: The Video Game Addiction Lawsuit
SIHTAF means “S[omething] I’ll Have To Apologize For,” as in readily-mockable conduct by a brother or sister member of the bar. Today, I contemplate my cocktail-party response to some guy suing video game publishers because his adult son has become a Playstation waste-oid.
A Defense of Bill Ackman
Short sellers are often the only voices available to counter promotional information offered by companies and their investors.
Obama’s Awkward ‘Between Two Ferns’ Interview
Artistically speaking, turning ‘Between Two Ferns’ into a commercial for the Affordable Care Act was a bad idea.
Stupid Tuesday questions, Del Monte edition
You’re welcome to all the peaches you can eat, man. But please shut up about it.
Growing up Ukrainian
Boris Lutskovsky grew up in the Eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, and for years he thought of himself as a Russian. As tensions rise in the Bloodlands, Boris reflects on what it means to be Ukrainian.
