Gandalf Stops SOPA
This has been making the social media rounds. And it made me laugh. Thankfully we have Ron Wyden playing the role of Gandalf here in the real world (of course, he’s directly opposed to...
Author: Erik Kain
Comment Deletion, Comment Policy, etc.
A few quick points. Front page authors: it is absolutely against our comment policy to delete any comments unless they are abject trolling, way out-of-bounds attacks on the author or other commenters, or seriously...
Rep. Jared Polis on his opposition to SOPA
The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive My interview with Rep. Jared Polis of Colorado is not as funny as Stephen Colbert’s Better Know A District bit with...
Batman and Civil Society
I have a long-ish post up at Forbes that the comic-book lovers among you, and those of you who enjoy Nolan’s Dark Knight films, might enjoy. I know the commenting is still sort of dark...
Forget Citizens United, the real corporate money is Big Media and the revolving door
That’s the basic premise of my latest piece in The Atlantic: In a 5-4 decision in January of 2010, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional campaign finance regulations which restricted corporations and unions from using...
A Wrinkle in Time
Austin Allen has a lovely post on Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time up at Big Think: L’Engle insisted that her novel be published as a children’s book, but she nearly gave up on...
A New Politics Blog
So I’m expanding the American Times Empire. My blog at Forbes has gradually morphed into a tech blog. I write about all sorts of tech stuff there now – from social media to video...
Resurrection of a book club – The Darkness that Comes Before
My sincere apologies to everyone who was, er, participating in this bookclub. With recent job changes and the holidays and some other things it sort of fell off the face of the earth. I’m...
Libertarianism and Liberalism and Labels
I’ve spilled far too much ink trying to map out my politics on to the available political labels, and I fear I will keep spilling it. Over at Bleeding-Heart Libertarians, Will Wilkinson disavows the...
Not Ron Paul or Huntsman – Maybe Johnson, Maybe Obama
I’m conflicted. Like Andrew Sullivan, after the barrage of news and pushback on Ron Paul and the racist newsletters published under his name for so many years, I think it would be almost impossible...
Jon Huntsman is the Perfect Republican Candidate
“New Hampshire Republicans and undeclared voters who want to field a candidate with broad appeal and the capability and credibility to have a shot at beating President Obama have three choices: putative frontrunner Mitt...
Here Comes Iowa
I’m left with more than a little despair these days. Ron Paul’s newsletters and the implications of those pamphlets, including the enormous amount of money Paul made publishing them, are more damning than I...
League Feed
The only fix I could come up with for our broken RSS feed was to change the Feedburner feed to an atom feed rather than the regular rss feed we were using. I have...
Ron Paul, Racism, and War
First things first, I’d like to apologize to mistermix for the rudeness of my last piece on the matter. Mainly I was feeling jaded over various Twitter exchanges that occurred prior to my reading...
Ron Paul and the racist newsletter
Mistermix asks: Both ED Kain and he-who-shall-not-be-named have endorsed Paul for President as a protest vote. Since I’m not a serious thinker, I’m free of the weighty obligation to endorse someone in the GOP primary. But for those serious folks, I...
Why I Will Be Voting for Ron Paul in 2012
Ron Paul is often described as a crank. Even folks like Ross Douthat who write basically sympathetic columns about the congressman from Texas say things like, “Paul, for all his crankishness, is the kind...
Going Down to St. Francisville
Rod Dreher is going home, back to the South, back to St. Francisville – a town he left at sixteen. His musings on that departure and eventual return are worth the read: When you...
Portrait of the blogger as a young man
So I am now officially unemployed. Well, I am officially blogging full time actually – so not quite unemployed so much as not traditionally employed. I am a contributor at Forbes so that makes me...
Democracy and Occupy Wall Street
Shawn writes: After facilitating at a general assembly several weeks back, one of my best friends received a message from a participant thanking him for the empowering experience. Even in the “world’s greatest democracy,”...
Okay so I’m indecisive
I changed my mind yesterday and am planning on returning the Xbox 360 when it arrives. I was just going over a long list of exclusives for the PS3 vs those for the Xbox...
