Saturday!
When you have to do a full restore of your gaming rig, there’s this lovely feeling of freedom.
Monthly Archive: September 2014
Free Speech Does Not Require Civility (Updated)
James Hanley civilly argues that Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks is not wrong to encourage civility, but he is dangerously wrong to elevate civility above freedom of speech.
‘Easy on the Eyes, Hard on the Face’
Has the marketing of the all-female cast of Ultimate Fighter 20 gone too far? Mike Dwyer considers the role of sex appeal in mixed martial arts advertising.
Weekend!
Jaybird walks into a doctor’s office. The doctor says “You’re overweight.” So Jaybird says “I want a second opinion!” and the doctor says “Okay, your cholesterol is a little high.”
The Balcony of an Inferno
A little while ago Patrick shared this video, which is of a construction worker in Houston stuck on a balcony of an apartment building on fire. It’s pretty suspenseful.
Linky Thursday
Links! One day early! This week: Education, Language, Culture, Health, Transportation, and Arctica & Antarctica!
Mount Rushmore: Egg McMuffin Edition
Click through to find out if Kazzy thinks Grape Nuts are the Jefferson or the Lincoln of America’s most important meal.
Removing the Thorn From a Nittany Lion’s Paw
Will Truman was not exactly on board with the sanctions handed down to Penn State. Now he’s mad that they’ve lifted them.
We’ll Always Have Apple
Ethan Gach pokes fun at our seemingly bizarre devotion to Apple on the eve of its new product reveal.
Partial Move
We thought when they said “We’re going to run out of packing material” that they meant that everything would have to pause as they got more. I was wrong.
Disney Afternoon!
DuckTales was never my favorite of the Disney Afternoon series, but this is all kinds of awesome:
Casus Contendentes (Now With Update)
Burt Likko wonders whether, despite the unmitigated human rights awfulness that is the nascent would-be state forming in northern Iraq, swallowing our idealism and adopting a strategy of economic containment wouldn’t be a more practical alternative to making war against ISIS.
UPDATE: Reaction to President Obama’s address of September 10.
Dave and Saul Discuss Market Basket
Throughout the course of a series of email exchanges, Saul and I discussed the story centered around Market Basket, a regional New England-based chain of grocery stores that drew national attention after a longstanding...
Reasoning by Analogy is like Poisoning Kittens
The path to clarity is to talk about the thing that needs to be talked about, even if it is messy.
