Alberta Lurches Left, Makes History
Canada’s most conservative province just elected its most liberal major party into power.
Monthly Archive: May 2015
It’s much , much worse than we feared…
It turns out same-sex marriage doesn’t just destroy your hero-sexual marriage.
On Death And Execution
If the three-drug cocktail used for capital punishment is found cruel and unusual, how ever shall we kill our prisoners?
Justice and Shame in the Age of Social Media
A proposed answer to Vikram’s musings, and a look at those celebrities we created for the express purpose of publicly punishing.
Swervedriver in Ottawa
Ottawa readers should probably come and see Swervedriver at Zaphod Beeblebrox tonight with me. (Non-Ottawa readers are welcome, too, but I imagine the logistics might be complicated.)
Which Celebrity Offenses do We Forgive?
It’s hard to guess what offenses the public will forgive and which they will remember.
Fast Approaching Official OT Comment Number 500,000
Things move too fast in this high-paced internet pseudo-world.
Wisconsin, The First Amendment, and Humiliating the Poor
Funny you don’t look Jewish sayeth the clerk…..
Comment Rescue: Minimum Wage Checklist
Gabriel Conroy examines a comment by zic on the topic of minimum wage checklists.
Linky Ole England: Election 2015
Who should you be supporting in the upcoming UK elections? Take a quiz to find out. Also, lots of links providing background on the challenges that the United Kingdom is facing.
What We Talk about When We Talk About Free Trade
Will we ever be able to talk about regulation in a meaningful way?
Salon, Darling, All is Forgiven!
Today, Salon is reprinting the piece we ran about universities being run like a business.
