As if the not-for-profit hospitals don’t have enough on their minds…
Municipalities looking to address budget concerns have shifted their focus to historically tax-exempt not-for-profit entities:
Monthly Archive: January 2015
Fear Itself: Spy Thrillers, Terrorism, and Civil Liberties
Note: This post will contain heavy spoilers for the BBC Drama the Honorable Woman and Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer. You have been warned.
Stupid Tuesday Questions: Nathan Detroit Edition
Do they teach the kids probability by having them play the ponies?
A Physical Conundrum
I have a tank full of water. I have a fire below the tank. But I have no hot water. My hvac guy is as mystified as I.
“You exterminate them, and you leave behind smoking building and crying widows.”
Predictably, the backlash against the horrific Charlie Hebdo massacre is leading to mainstream demands to declare all Muslims the Enemy.
Hometown!
Everyone has a hometown. Lots of places have music about them. What music defines where you’re from?
Fishes, Ponds, Governors, Senators
Will Truman asks: Why would anyone leave a governorship for the senate?
Black Mirror recaps start next Sunday, 1/18
Hi all, we will be recapping the UK dark sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror, available on Netflix streaming, starting next Sunday with ep. S101, “The National Anthem”, recapped by none other than Our Tod.
Check the show out, hope to see you then!
Sunday!
The Black Friday to the Oscars’ Christmas, The Golden Globes, is having its big shindig tonight. Predictions?
On Defending Free Speech – What is your true rejection?
If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha – Gautama Siddhartha
Run, Mitt, Run!
Mitt Romney is considering running again in 2016. Herewith a little history lesson. Three men have lost their first election as their party’s presidential nominee, then gone on to get their party’s nomination again:*#...
I Unequivocally Support the Right to Speech I Support the Right To
James Hanley critiques the “good judgement” pseudo-defense of free speech.
Saturday!
Remember back in 2012 how we were bummed that Cyberpunk 2077 wasn’t coming out until 2015?
Why Do You Care About Free Speech?
It’s suddenly very fashionable to be a strident advocate of free speech, without giving a lot of thought into why free speech is worthy of advocacy. Burt Likko dares to offer five reasons, which surely won’t be controversial at all.
Satire is not provocative, except in the way that it is supposed to be.
Must satire be sensible and respectable in order to be valid?
