Appealing To A Certain Demographic
If we live in the age of the politics of personality, then perhaps litigation offers a window to a candidate’s embittered, unpleasant soul.
Category: Not a Potted Plant
Mockingjay, Part 1
The Hunger Games movies do much to convince its audiences not to trust women with anything important.
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.
What Ought a Young Girl Read?
Recommended reading lists are only histories of what worked for whoever constructed them.
Practical Shaving with a Double-edge Safety Razor
A double-edged safety razor is actually less fussy than the alternatives.
Know Your Executioner
A condemned man in Tennessee wants his lawyers to depose the people who would be his executioners.
Linky Friday #123: Middle East Meets West
This Week: Jihadism, Anglosphere, Labor, University, Science, and Progress!
The Value of Playing with Commercially Produced Toys
The merits of playing with loose parts seems oversold.
Linky Friday #122: Lain Edition
This Week! Headlines, Politics, Transportation, Reproduction, Society, and Education!
If Your Customers don’t Understand Your Product, it’s Your Fault
Looking in vain for ChinesePod’s pedagogical philosophy.
Linky Friday #121: Slimy Critters
This week: United States, Housing, Society, Education, Science, and Nature!
