Day: September 6, 2015

Getting Myself in Trouble: Some Thoughts on Aesthetics and Culture and the Revolt against the Intellectual Yellow-Red-Blue

Getting Myself in Trouble: Some Thoughts on Aesthetics and Culture and the Revolt against the Intellectual

Saul DeGraw September 6, 2015

Does cultural relativism really exist? Thoughts on cultural safe zones.

Sunday!

Jaybird September 6, 2015

On Holding Up

Slade the Leveller in reply to InMD on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaYep. At some point (hopefully) someone's going to have to say, "You have done enough. Have you no se…
Slade the Leveller in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Lovely. Just in time for my UK vacation. I wonder if the people who voted for Trump because they wan…
InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Dollar down 10% since inauguration day as investors abandoning it due to tariff chaos. Yikes. https:…
InMD in reply to Slade the Leveller on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaTo be clear I'm really talking about taking the L and conceding the issue for the near future, with…
bobtuse in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025"We" need only to declare a national emergency. That should speed things up bigly.
Slade the Leveller in reply to InMD on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaThat assumes there was a compromise to be had. Hell's bells, Republicans scuttled their own bill las…
Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025The law firm agreements are exactly what you expect: "One reason we know they’re not legally enforce…
Michael Cain in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025It's not an either-or situation. Well, I guess it is if you start from the position, "I want REEs mi…
Michael Cain in reply to North on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025HCl or other solvents are routine in the case of REEs in "normal" ores. In coal ash, they can take a…
Dark Matter in reply to Burt Likko on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaAfter he's gone we'll have to pass a new Amendment, I'm not sure what it will say. The core problem…