autism is a disorder
Those who have read a lot of my stuff know that I am someone who has very little patience for the seemingly endless (brave, bold, contrarian) stances bloggers and pundits make against political correctness....
Author: Freddie
Sunday Poem Series
Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy WE stood by a pond that winter day, And the sun was white, as though chidden of God, And a few leaves lay on the starving sod, -They had...
Just to echo
Andrew, someone should give Julian Sanchez a job as a paid blogger. Because he is very good at what he does.
…and he doesn’t look a day over 400.
“Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will him about mine ears; and sometime voices, That if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again, and then in dreaming The clouds methought...
torture
“Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond is established between you and him… These things I know, Ubertino; I also...
A pro-Apple commenter said it perfectly…
… when he pointed out that Apple is selling a lifestyle, not just a computer. And he’s right! Personally, I don’t need to buy a lifestyle from a corporation. I need a computer that...
Why I care about this Apple vs. PC business
So there’s this company. Maybe you’ve heard of it. It’s called “Apple”. (I know– really non-threatening!) I don’t harbor any animus against this company, personally. At least I didn’t. But several years ago, Apple...
Friday Night Jukebox
Customarily, these Friday Night Jukebox posts come with some ruminations about the musician or music in question. But I’m afraid the same real-life conditions that compel me to post these videos leave me able...
Pomocon returns
Ordinarily, this would probably be the sort of thing that would go up in a minipost. But clearly James Poulos and his band require pride of place here at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen....
tech bleg
So I’m the kind to always build my own PCs from parts, cause I hate paying a premium, tend to build higher-end systems (where the economic advantage is highest), don’t want to pay for...
Abu-Jamal and the Costs of Reflexive Anti-Leftism
In the interests of showing that I will disagree as loudly with my friends as with my foes…. Mark invokes what has become a stand-in for every “loony left” cliche there is, the Mumia...
Sunday Poem Series, on Easter
from Poems of the Naming of Places by William Wordsworth …we advanc’d Along the indented shore; when suddenly, Through a thin veil of glittering haze, we saw Before us on a point of jutting...
even this ship needs steering
Via Andrew, Felix Salmon pokes holes in a list of necessary reforms from Nassim Taleb: Taleb’s first principle is that “nothing should ever become too big to fail”. But all economies have too-big-to-fail institutions;...
Sunday Poem series
The Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee About his shadowy...
the Goldberg conundrum
Peter Suderman considers Ari Roth vs. Jeffrey Goldberg. Isn’t Goldberg an almost ludicrously enthusiastic booster for the Sopranos? I know– the point of the Sopranos isn’t that the characters are people you want to...
Ward Churchill
1. Ward Churchill is an asshole. 2. He was actually correct in saying, in his notorious essay “Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Chickens Coming Home to Roost” and subsequent interviews, that...
Whenever you say “Nobody on our side does that,” you’re wrong.
OK– I am not a connected guy. I don’t live in Washington DC. I don’t work for a think tank, magazine, political action campaign, or anything of the sort. I am the last to...
Ahhh, Slate
Among the many editorial disagreements I have with Slate.com is the fact that, very often, their subheads or “jumpheads” (or whatever alternative web headlines are called) are written in a style that, in a...
