Ordinary Blogs (re-posted)
[reposted from Sunday] If I could draw your attention to the top of the page for a moment you will see a number of pages listed in our navigation bar. Beginning with “Home” you...
Author: Erik Kain
The Ghost in the Square
This is an excellent speech by British writer Phillip Pullman, author of The Golden Compass (via): The greedy ghost understands profit all right. But that’s all he understands. What he doesn’t understand is enterprises that...
AOL buys the Huffington Post
The big news today – other than the Packer’s most excellent victory over the Steelers Sunday – is that AOL is buying the Huffington Post for $315 million dollars. No word from Arianna Huffington...
Ordinary Blogs
If I could draw your attention to the top of the page for a moment you will see a number of pages listed in our navigation bar. Beginning with “Home” you will then progress...
Open-Enrollment vs. the Mandate
Someone in the comments (forgive me, off the top of my head I can’t recall who) recently suggested that, instead of an individual mandate we could have yearly open-enrollment periods. Well, looks as though Senator...
The Importance of Being Insured
Freddie deBoer writes: Personally, I think denying people adequate health care coverage because of their economic condition or employment status is a practical and ethical failure equal to Jim Crow or similar regimes of...
Legislating from the bench
Orin Kerr explains the essential problem with the recent District court ruling against the new healthcare law: This might work as a Supreme Court opinion that can disagree with precedent. But Judge Vinson is...
Florida Judge Voids Affordable Care Act
Brian Beutler has the scoop: A federal district court judge in Florida ruled today that a key provision in the new health care law is unconstitutional, and that the entire law must be voided....
Wealth Transfer
Here’s Atrios: Just because I’m petty and George Bush was very proud of the increase the home ownership rate under his presidency, latest census figures out today have the home ownership rate at 66.5%....
Egypt Open Thread
What the hello are those damn protesters thinking vindicating the neocons and Bush like this? (I kid, of course.) Also, is the military just holding off, letting chaos do its thing, before swooping in...
Science in Sci-Fi film
John Holbo has a veryy good post up trying to classify the various types of science-fiction films by their approach and attitudes toward science. He lists quite a few – 1) pro-science/pro-rationality 2) anti-science...
Ayn Rand, welfare queen
I have to confess: I’ve never read Ayn Rand. Not once. But I still think this is pretty amusing.
Oh the times! Oh the customs!
Here’s BlaiseP in a post-worthy comment: Traditions aren’t dying out… says the man who just bought a new Online calligraphy pen. Harking back to Sam Smith’s ur-screed, bemoaning the Liberal instinct to concentrate and...
Another Open Thread
Okay, this one is for people who want to talk about what video games they’re playing right now so that I can enjoy them by proxy. Or any good books people might be reading...
Abortion and Slavery again
Ta-Nehisi has pushed once again into the abortion and slavery debate, this time following the invocation of that analogy by Rick Santorum and Joe Klein’s subsequent defense of Santorum’s rhetoric. Now, I’ve admitted in...
Anti-Intellectualism and Magical Thinking
A couple follow-up thoughts on DougJ’s response to my Little Republics post. First of all, I think the charge of anti-intellectualism is a little off the mark. I have absolutely nothing against intellectuals or...
Two Songs for Friday Night
The first is from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes: And the best cover of that song I’ve seen: The second is from The Decembrists: Have a happy weekend all.
Little Republics & Little Platoons
‘Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wide World,’ said the Rat. ‘And that’s something that doesn’t matter, either to you or me. I’ve never been there, and I’m never going, nor you either, if...
Reclaiming Liberalism
Matt Yglesias responds to Freddie’s post on the dearth of truly left-wing voices in the blogosphere, and lists his own economic goals as a way to illustrate his own views on liberalism: More redistribution...
