Monthly Archive: July 2015
Bill Cosby and the End of Innocence
Bill Cosby was a big part of my growing up. So, when you start to hear accusations it is not easy to believe them. Because to believe them means that this person who made you laugh and made you feel proud to be an African American was a monster.
Harry Potter, the Wizard of Earthsea, and the Difference Between American and British Wizards
With special guest appearances by Jane Austen and the 80’s screwball comedy Soul Man!
A failure to communicate
Starting a competitor to your employer while on the clock using employer resources seems like a pretty good way to destroy your career before it starts.
Mockingjay, Part 1
The Hunger Games movies do much to convince its audiences not to trust women with anything important.
The God of Benevolence
Jon Rowe examines the concept of God through the lens of 18th Century American notions of “benevolence” with a special focus on Emmanuel Swedenborg.
Changing Tides, Social Conservatives, and the Price of Swinging for the Fences in Politics
To what extent does someone who attempts to curtail someone else’s basic liberties have standing to have their liberties protected? Sometimes in a democratic society the question is academic and the answer counter-intuitive.
Linky Friday #124: Northern Invasion
Alumni, cross-border hostility, Bernie Sanders and Jar Jar Binks. There’s serious stuff, too.
Mocking the Polyamorous: an Exercise in Self-Defeating Advocacy
Monogamous marriage is the right choice for Burt Likko, but mocking those who make a different choice strikes him as very much the wrong way for conservatives to go about their business.
