Those who have read a lot of my stuff know that I am someone who has very...
Freddie
Freddie deBoer used to blog at lhote.blogspot.com, and may again someday. Now he blogs here.
Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy WE stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was...
Andrew, someone should give Julian Sanchez a job as a paid blogger. Because he is very good...
“Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will him about mine ears; and sometime voices, That if I then...
“Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please...
… to pay the bills.
… when he pointed out that Apple is selling a lifestyle, not just a computer. And he’s...
So there’s this company. Maybe you’ve heard of it. It’s called “Apple”. (I know– really non-threatening!) I...
Customarily, these Friday Night Jukebox posts come with some ruminations about the musician or music in question....
Ordinarily, this would probably be the sort of thing that would go up in a minipost. But...
So I’m the kind to always build my own PCs from parts, cause I hate paying a...
In the interests of showing that I will disagree as loudly with my friends as with my...
from Poems of the Naming of Places by William Wordsworth …we advanc’d Along the indented shore; when...
Via Andrew, Felix Salmon pokes holes in a list of necessary reforms from Nassim Taleb: Taleb’s first...
The Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far, far beneath in...
to be an interesting sociological experiment.
Peter Suderman considers Ari Roth vs. Jeffrey Goldberg. Isn’t Goldberg an almost ludicrously enthusiastic booster for the...
1. Ward Churchill is an asshole. 2. He was actually correct in saying, in his notorious essay...
OK– I am not a connected guy. I don’t live in Washington DC. I don’t work for...
Among the many editorial disagreements I have with Slate.com is the fact that, very often, their subheads...