Author: Freddie

the music.

Writing an article like this, making empirical claims with almost entirely anecdotal evidence, and a single study, that doesn’t address the question you are raising (or assert the answer you are very much suggesting) —...

for this, but man, am I feeling him/her.

got paid for writing this.

The Portent by Herman Melville HANGING from the beam, Slowing swaying (such the law), Gaunt the shadow on your green, Shenandoah! The cut is on the crown (Lo, John Brown), And the stabs shall...

Michael, would be to join that army that you are so desperate to send out to every corner of the earth. Think about it!

Jacob Weisberg, I promise– I promise– 100 years from today, millions of paper-and-ink books will be being printed. I promise.

Just wanted to turn your attention to Clay Shirky’s response to my post from the comments, which I’ve quoted in its entirely below. “That’s a big part of my anger: people act as though...

… I give you Rolcats.

Andrew approvingly links to more schadenfreude directed towards the newspapers. And, yes, I call it schadenfreude.  I don’t want to be hard on Clay Shirky, who talks about the negative consequences of the end...

Here’s a little passage from Jeff Goldberg that I’m afraid is remarkable only for how typical it is: It is widely believed on the blogosphere that the campaign against Freeman was coordinated by AIPAC...

Saw the movie version of Watchmen tonight. There’s no particular reason to dislike the movie more than the comic book. There’s just every reason to dislike both. Watchmen, the graphic novel,  is lauded for...

I hate to do this, but to all the emailers who told me, in response to this post, that nobody actually believes that there are meaningful sociological differences between PC and Mac users, well…....

Erik’s post on protectionism has me thinking about another kind of protectionism, the one about illegal immigration and its consequences for our labor force. I still run around with a pretty radical crew, often...

This is how a movement ends… this is how a movement ends…. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. (video via Yglesias)

P The Creation of Sound by Wallace Stevens If the poetry of X was music, So that it came to him of its own, Without understanding, out of the wall Or in the ceiling,...