Day: March 23, 2017

Weekend!

Jaybird March 23, 2017

Encouragement for halfway...ish... through Lent

PATN Week 12 – Astyanax is Bad Bad News for Baseball Dudes PlayAllTheNintendo-Wide-02

PATN Week 12 – Astyanax is Bad Bad News for Baseball Dudes

JM French March 23, 2017

This week on Play All The Nintendo: Astyanax, Bad Dudes and Bad News Baseball. I love the...

The Hoover Hog: My “Open Letter” Concerning the Amazon Blacklist and Freedom of Speech 6931052841_bb2411714c_b_censorship

The Hoover Hog: My “Open Letter” Concerning the Amazon Blacklist and Freedom of Speech

Will Truman March 23, 2017

But you already know this. Since I assume you’re a stakeholder situated somewhere above my marginal niche...
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Beinart: Donald Trump, Frank Gaffney, and the Looming Threat to American Muslims 800px-Muslim_girl_in_a_white_tudung_-_20100718[1]

Beinart: Donald Trump, Frank Gaffney, and the Looming Threat to American Muslims

Will Truman March 23, 2017

For years, Washington conservatives ridiculed these arguments and stigmatized Gaffney for making them. In 2003, after...
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Science and Technology Links 3/23: Einstein Condensates Are Not Headphones! 2221852239_fc2e58f233_b_channeled-scablands

Science and Technology Links 3/23: Einstein Condensates Are Not Headphones!

Oscar Gordon March 23, 2017

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!”...

Book Review: Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust (2016) orpheus_and_eurydice_1869-400

Book Review: Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust (2016)

Rufus F. March 23, 2017

A scholarly look at how literature can help us to understand the hard work of being human.

North in reply to Philip H on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointRed states build a lot more infrastructure, housing and such development compared to their Blue stat…
North on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointFreddie has always had this squeamishness about YIMBY’s that I think stems from the fact that he, in…
Saul Degraw in reply to Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025And he has more available but this was expected.
Dark Matter in reply to CJColucci on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025I asked Google's AI the history of that word/medical-phrase. ...gained prominence in the mid-20th ce…
Philip H in reply to DensityDuck on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointWhat pray tell do you think the Right in the US is correct about? I mean Democrats borrowed the righ…
Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Welp. I guess he has now had his due process. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5361208/mahmoud-k…
CJColucci in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025I'm not sure about that. I'm older than RFK, Jr., and I remember when I was in 8th grade and homeroo…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointFred is weird here because he's pointing to the problems, admitting that the policies he doesn't lik…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025The "R word" is an example of the Euphemism treadmill where we decide on a polite euphemism (or medi…
LeeEsq on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointIt's always a safe bet to do the exact opposite of Freddie's advice.