Monthly Archive: May 2014
Linky Friday #69
Links! Click on them and go places! Labor, Germany, Politics, Family, Regulation, Politics, and Technology!
The Icemen Cometh?
In the comments of my Eye of the Storm post, Roger wrote: In general moderate warming is vastly preferable to moderate cooling At the risk of being called a denialist, or just being called...
Why Babylon 5 is the Best — and Worst — Television Science Fiction Show Ever Made
Loved or hated by sci-fi fans, Babylon 5 is the oddest of accomplishments: It’s writing, acting, and directing is all jarringly terrible. And yet on a meta-level, it is the most brilliantly conceived science-fiction television show of all time. Whether you love it or hate it depends greatly upon which kind of sci-fi fan you are.
Mount Rushmore – Movie Franchise Edition
Brando, Krueger, Skywalker, and Vin Diesel? Yes, you read that right.
The Tale of Two Brooklyns
When I graduated college in 2002, a friend of mine from New England invited me to hang out with her in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn as she went apartment hunting. I thought this...
The Protection Racket
A kind of true story in which a clever woodland creature wheedles sustenance from a stranded blogger.
Gotta Pay The Toll
Your Interstates may start coming with more toll stations. Because roads, it seems, need to be paid for.
The Left’s Continued War on Women
Mackin’, butts and women are D-U-M dum: This is your Ontario Liberal Party.
Sometimes, A Shoe Is Just A Shoe
Shoes aren’t magic. They’re just shoes. Anybody taking any other position is either trying to get your money or being unnecessarily critical.
At My Real Job: Education and Entrepreneurship
At this month’s Cato Unbound, we’re talking about school choice, markets, and democracy – with none other than the League’s own Conor Williams.
Lessons Learned from a Visit from a Norovirus
A norovirus visited the Himmelreich-Truman household, and Trumwill learned much. Like what oral hydration solution is, and what it’s like to be in an ER.
What the Left (and pretty much everyone else) still don’t get about the “Monica Lewinksi Scandal”
Here’s a hint: Why do you even call it the Monica Lewinsky Scandal?
Star Wars and Diversity in Modern Casting
How much social responsibility is attached to modern film making?