May’s Embarrassment of Riches – A Books & Reading Open Thread
For the past few months I have been bitching to friends and family that I can’t find anything good to read. So I am really looking forward to the next four weeks. May 2012...
Author: Tod Kelly
A Question for Techies, Engineers and the Libertarian-Leaning
Reading an old “office war story” by Wardsmith over the weekend, it struck me that most of the libertarian leaning people I know in my fleshbot life work as engineers, programmers, or in some...
Corporate Hierarchy, Job Security, and Political Identity
My first job in a real sales capacity was in the employ of a behemoth Fortune 500 company. Of all the companies with whom I have ever had a professional association of any kind,...
Apropos of nothing, a little self-congratulatory group hug…
UPDATE: My bad! I misread the reader. We’re just about to go over 3.9 million; we won’t hit 4 million for another couple of weeks. I’d say suggest some sort of Kismet about hitting...
The Henchman’s Diary
In the glamorous world of superheroes, all of the media attention is always focused on the famous, flamboyant super-villains. But what about the regular, everyday, Joe-Shmoe working-stiffs that make the wheels of those Evil Empires go ’round? Who takes the time to tell their story?
Weekend Cooking Project : Grilled Whole Fish
The weekends coming up fast, and if you’re like us then today or tomorrow you’ll be shopping for things to eat over beer, wine and cocktails. So if you haven’t already got your grocery...
Enough already with the “Socialist this,” and the “Social Darwinist that”
One of the big topics raging through the Blogoshere this week stems from the “thinly veiled social Darwinism” meme that the left is currently test-ballooning. Jennifer Rubin, Robert Wright, the NYT, Beck’s Blaze, Red...
Happy Easter!
So maybe I’m not the ideal League member to wish everyone a most Happy Easter, self-professed heathen that I am. But Happy Easter, everyone! We never went to church on Easter when I was...
Can We At Least All Agree that John Derbyshire is Racist?
OK, I know that for supporters of the Right here that it’s a sign of either my intellectual dishonesty or my being an intellectual lightweight that I can hear even echoes of racism in...
On “Truth” and Its Consequences – Why We Need A New Business Model for 21st Century Journalism
On January 6, NPR’s This American Life aired an hour long and fairly damning segment on the working conditions of the Chinese manufacturing workers that build Apple products. To say the show got some...
A Bloggy Puttanesca
(A staple in my house since my single years, a puttanesca is a cheap, low-class pasta dish that clears out little bits of other stuff from the fridge you are trying to get rid...
The Passionate Zeal of the Rebel Outcast – A Question for the League
Here’s a question for the group: Have you ever stood strongly for something – almost militantly so – that you now stand equally strongly against? Let me explain. In a conversation over at Blinded...
Quick, turn on E! so we can see if he’s dating JWoww!
Color me utterly uninterested that Rick Santorum uttered a naughty word or barked at a New York Times reporter. But since it appears we have to be forced to micro-focus on such non-events during elections...
In Tod’s perfect dream world…
… sometimes in the next week or two, James K reads this book and writes a post on it.
The Violent Gang Member in This Picture Is Easily Identifiable By His Tell-Tale Outerwear
Being a white male of means, I’m never entirely comfortable getting on a soapbox and talking about racism. You never know what is really in another person’s heart, and it’s difficult to unpack what...
In Which I Posit the Theory that Fiscal Conservatives Should Vote for a Democrat POTUS – (and government spending advocates should vote GOP)
One of the inevitable election-year pundit cliches that always makes me cringe is this response to any accurate criticism of either party’s lack of promised execution: “Yeah, but it would be so much worse...
Skimming for the Dirty Parts – Book Censorship In Public Schools, The Enders Game Controversy, and The False Allure of Public Decency
While it is true that I stole both Brave New World and Flowers for Algernon from the public library, it should be noted for the record that I did eventually return them. Plus, it...
A Quick “OMG! Update” on Enders Game & South Carolina
Big, big, big hat tip to Erik who sent me an email today about the continuing breaking news surrounding the South Carolina teacher suspension for reading Scott Orson Card’s Enders Game that I discussed...
Portlandia in Portland, The Enders Game in South Carolina, and Why I Prefer Living In A Nation Over a Confederacy
There are few things on television today that are as beloved by we denizens of the Rose City as IFC’s Portlandia. While I believe that quite a few people in other parts of the...
You Have Carbonite Sickness, But Your Sight Will Return Shortly – or, why Limbaugh didn’t really kill Carbonite, and the Left hasn’t really killed Limbaugh
Over at Not a Potted Plant, Will has been commenting one of the newer internet political memes: Carbonite. Carbonite is a publicly traded stock company that asked it’s advertising agency to pull ads from...
