The Nigel Tufnel Theory of Rhetoric
Nigel Tufnel understood you can’t play along at eleven all the time. And he was an idiot.
Monthly Archive: May 2014
Are You Ready For Some Fútbol?
The Ordinary Times World Cup Pick’em Group is open for business. Try to beat the other enthusiastic soccer dilettantes!
For the Surveillance Interest Inclined…
Brookings will be hosting a fantastic discussion on the subject next Thursday. Carrie Cordero, Jameel Jaffer, Julian Sanchez, and John Inglis moderated by Ben Wittes will be a MUCH MUCH more interesting and substantive...
“Game” and The Price of the Pick Up Artist Movement
The Pick Up Artist movement was not responsible for the Santa Barbara shootings. But it’s still terrible.
Linky Friday #70 [Updated!]
Links! Click on them and go places! This week: Transportation, Settlement, Family, Resources, Culture, America, and the World!
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
The hearts of a million punk rockers were broken today and their screams could be heard across the Internet.
Dear Nate Silver: Hire Better Editors
I get that some folks thought we were being too hard on Silver over the Pielke stuff. Fine. But look at this recent piece of utter dreck. Anyone with a basic understanding of statistics...
Phenomenal Woman
Maya Angelou passed today at the age of 86. The world is a worse place today than it was yesterday.
The moral abyss that is Joe the Plumber
At long last, have you left no sense of decency, Mr. Wurzelbacher?
Turn
Is anyone else watching AMC’s Turn, and if so, what do you think of it? I think they made a very creative choice for the theme song and title sequence. The rest I’m not...
Richard Epstein and Tea Party Constitutionalism. Two peas. Different pods.
Dave challenges Cass Sustein’s claim that Richard Epstein’s legal theories serve as the intellectual framework for the Tea Party.
