Correct me if I'm wrong here, my homosexual online friends, but it seems to me that a gay man might very well notice a woman's bewbs, at least as an attribute of her overall appearance. True, he might not have the same salacious interest in said bewbs as felt by breedermales. But you don't have to be sexually interested in the bewbs to notice, say, if the shirt they're in is too big or small for them, or if they're not in a bra and really should have been, et cetera et cetera.
I have it on good authority that women notice these sorts of things about each other and comment on bewbs amongst themselves from time to time, and that this doesn't make them lesbians.
...And we now all owe Damon a debt of gratitude for giving us a new meme for the blog.
Agh! Why couldn't you have posted this three hours earlier, BEFORE I bought two new books on Amazon? Now I'll have to get at least Mirage.
Then again, based on another endorsement read here at the League, one of the books I did get was Metropolitan by Walter Jon Williams, and already I'm not regretting the purchase.
And the funny thing is that this particular bill falls reasonably close to "interstate commerce" as well as military and national security issues, both of which are areas where, if invoked reasonably, Federal authority would functionally unquestioned. I have to imagine that this bit of drafting is the result of laziness rather than avoidance.
I still remember fondly a title dispute in which one party contended that his chain of title was traceable back to the King of Spain. Which is how I wound up looking at a microfiched copy of a Royal land grant from the 1780's which did, indeed, have a dark blotch on it where the wax seal was on the original, although I was more taken with El Rey's florid signature. I don't know if the original still exists.
I use that tool all the time. But the point is, don't you think a reasonable person would be more sensitive about how much their house was worth than the amount of their water bill?
I'm in the ass end of Los Angeles County, aka the Antelope Valley. My water service is provided by the County of Los Angeles; to my knowledge, LADWP services only the City of Los Angeles and a few small areas immediately adjacent to it. Although the Los Angeles Aqueduct runs not far from my house, not a drop of that water comes to my taps; LADWP guards that water and its rights to it as jealously now as it did back in the days of Bill Mulholland.
Cheers, Carl! There is a perception that our colleges turn out too many lawyers and accountants and stockbrokers but not enough engineers and chemists and other hard science types. You may be right that some students would pursue engineering and become disaffected with it later in life; I can assure you, though, that plenty of the ones who pursue law and business burn out as it is. They are attracted to the money and glamour that SOME lawyers and financial types enjoy and when they find it's a lot of hard work often for not so much reward, well, they become disaffected. They would be thus no matter what profession they pursue.
But I don't see the loan term differential as the government "picking winners and losers," the same way your restaurant example would be. The government provides financial incentives all the time to encourage desired behavior. Agricultural subsidies and G.I. Bills and tax deductions and housing loan guarantees and the list goes on and on. If it is the case that we really have too many lawyers and not enough engineers then I think it's appropriate for the government to incentivize corrective measures. Someone who wants to be a lawyer will still pursue that. But if student loans for engineering school are cheaper than for B-school, then those with no strong preference one way or another might take a closer look at something they might have eschewed with other factors being equal.
The professions are not in competition with one another. At least not in the way restaurants are.
Mazel tov! Will Mrs. Noonan be joining us in Las Vegas?
I will be very interested in learning about the experience of changing your last name. My wife took my name and more than seven years later the process is still incomplete. So your experience, coming in a somewhat less common form, promises to be interesting indeed.
Two problems need to be addressed: first, I think it's unlikely that there will be a quiet place like a conference room available for skyping. This is intended to be a symposium in the classic sense -- a social event -- rather than the modern academic sense. Second, my laptop is on its last legs and I actually wasn't even planning on bringing it. Someone can bring a better device, but it's going to have to be someone other than me, and we'll have to figure out where and when it can be done. Perhaps we can set aside some time in somoene's room.
These are problems that could probably be overcome. Please feel free to send me an email: My screen name with no spaces, [at] gmail.
(Others have already noted the space awesomeness of this post. I'll add that the September 18 entry sounds quite a lot like about half of my employment law intake interviews.)
Yeah, that's pretty much right. Any of those are nightmare scenarios, which is why I think you'd have to be stoned to think this proposed Constitutional amendment was a good idea.
What IS this new course? Where are we headed, or rather, where would he like to steer the ship? I can ubderstand the idea of a political realignment, an entrenchment of the Democratic party in suburbia, but what is the Obama vision for the country? Reagan, and Johnson and Eisenhower and FDR, were all able to articulate their visions even if the reality worked out to be different. Aside from a warm fuzzy feeling of moving past the crudest of our racial struggles and looking more to the government to address health care problems of individuals I do not know what Obama's future for the USA looks like. School me.
Are you talking about Evangelical Christians? Protestants? Orthodox? Historically Black Churches?
Maybe. Sure, there are lots of denominations within Christianity. Or, one might look at it in a generalized sort of way. Or, one might make an assumption -- an assumption that the audience might challenge, an assumption that is as revealing about the culture as is the assumption that a character with no assigned religious identity is generically Christian.
An artist might wish to explore the impact of particular denominations on the culture, or that of Christianity in a more generalized sense. That's up to the artist.
I'm pointing out that there are some things about visual media that are going to come into play no matter what level of focus the artist chooses to use.
Of course I'm only addressing explicitly Christian characters. Universalized characters devoid of explicit religious identity afford us little if any meaningful opportunity to consider the role of religion, and in particular the dominant religion, in our society.
And a character who is not assigned a specific religious identity may very well be assumed to be Christian. But all that really tells us is that Christianity is the dominant and therefore "default" religious identity for our culture. And we all already knew that. It doesn't tell us whether Christianity is acting as a force for good or evil, for instance, or anything else.
But a character who we are told is Christian, well, that character requires us to confront Christianity, at least a little bit. That's when it gets interesting.
Seems to me that Clinton was quite popular. He weathered scandals and impeachments and presided over very good economic times while running a budget surplus as Keynes would have said he should. The only critique of Clinton's economic policy in retrospect seems to be that he didn't build up the surplus into a war chest to prepare for coming bad times. This, however, seems like a well-nigh impossible task for anyone given the democratic pressures on our government (as Jason noted above).
High speed rail is another bugaboo of mine, particularly here in California where it seems like it would be such a natural fit into our local economy. Most New Deal-era infrastructure projects came in early and under budget, with tolerable levels of graft and corruption. It's a bit different now.
I don't dislike the idea of investing in creating this kind of infrastructure, but I despaired from the beginning that it could be done in practice. Unfortuantely my all-too-easy predictions have come true; ten years and billions of dollars later not a single rail has been laid, we're told the high-speed portions of the track will be routed over existing (nonelectrified) rail lines laid in the nineteenth century, and the system won't carry passengers until ten years after the initial opening date.
If the public actually got the promised investment for something like the promised price tag at something approximating the original deliverability date, I'd be all over it. What's actually happening is of little economic benefit to anyone other than the graftors, serves as a dead lead weight on the state's budget, and will not deliver the promised infrastructure and corresponding economi benefit in the unlikely event that it is ever delivered.
On “Advertising and Manipulation”
Correct me if I'm wrong here, my homosexual online friends, but it seems to me that a gay man might very well notice a woman's bewbs, at least as an attribute of her overall appearance. True, he might not have the same salacious interest in said bewbs as felt by breedermales. But you don't have to be sexually interested in the bewbs to notice, say, if the shirt they're in is too big or small for them, or if they're not in a bra and really should have been, et cetera et cetera.
I have it on good authority that women notice these sorts of things about each other and comment on bewbs amongst themselves from time to time, and that this doesn't make them lesbians.
...And we now all owe Damon a debt of gratitude for giving us a new meme for the blog.
On “May’s Embarrassment of Riches – A Books & Reading Open Thread”
Agh! Why couldn't you have posted this three hours earlier, BEFORE I bought two new books on Amazon? Now I'll have to get at least Mirage.
Then again, based on another endorsement read here at the League, one of the books I did get was Metropolitan by Walter Jon Williams, and already I'm not regretting the purchase.
On “Corporate Hierarchy, Job Security, and Political Identity”
I see what you did there. Very funny.
On “Constitutional Authority Statements”
And the funny thing is that this particular bill falls reasonably close to "interstate commerce" as well as military and national security issues, both of which are areas where, if invoked reasonably, Federal authority would functionally unquestioned. I have to imagine that this bit of drafting is the result of laziness rather than avoidance.
On “A Question for Techies, Engineers and the Libertarian-Leaning”
Some of us, though, have had to resort to somewhat more drastic measures.
On “An Andy Rooney Moment”
I still remember fondly a title dispute in which one party contended that his chain of title was traceable back to the King of Spain. Which is how I wound up looking at a microfiched copy of a Royal land grant from the 1780's which did, indeed, have a dark blotch on it where the wax seal was on the original, although I was more taken with El Rey's florid signature. I don't know if the original still exists.
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I use that tool all the time. But the point is, don't you think a reasonable person would be more sensitive about how much their house was worth than the amount of their water bill?
"
I'm in the ass end of Los Angeles County, aka the Antelope Valley. My water service is provided by the County of Los Angeles; to my knowledge, LADWP services only the City of Los Angeles and a few small areas immediately adjacent to it. Although the Los Angeles Aqueduct runs not far from my house, not a drop of that water comes to my taps; LADWP guards that water and its rights to it as jealously now as it did back in the days of Bill Mulholland.
On “Debt and Career Choices”
Cheers, Carl! There is a perception that our colleges turn out too many lawyers and accountants and stockbrokers but not enough engineers and chemists and other hard science types. You may be right that some students would pursue engineering and become disaffected with it later in life; I can assure you, though, that plenty of the ones who pursue law and business burn out as it is. They are attracted to the money and glamour that SOME lawyers and financial types enjoy and when they find it's a lot of hard work often for not so much reward, well, they become disaffected. They would be thus no matter what profession they pursue.
But I don't see the loan term differential as the government "picking winners and losers," the same way your restaurant example would be. The government provides financial incentives all the time to encourage desired behavior. Agricultural subsidies and G.I. Bills and tax deductions and housing loan guarantees and the list goes on and on. If it is the case that we really have too many lawyers and not enough engineers then I think it's appropriate for the government to incentivize corrective measures. Someone who wants to be a lawyer will still pursue that. But if student loans for engineering school are cheaper than for B-school, then those with no strong preference one way or another might take a closer look at something they might have eschewed with other factors being equal.
The professions are not in competition with one another. At least not in the way restaurants are.
On “You Are What You Drink”
For liquor:
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On “The Sometime Blogger Formerly Known As…”
Mazel tov! Will Mrs. Noonan be joining us in Las Vegas?
I will be very interested in learning about the experience of changing your last name. My wife took my name and more than seven years later the process is still incomplete. So your experience, coming in a somewhat less common form, promises to be interesting indeed.
On “I’m Guest Blogging at The Atlantic”
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't jealous. In a way that also makes me happy for you. What a venue! What an audience! Enjoy!
On “Leaguefest 2012: Rooms Going Fast”
Two problems need to be addressed: first, I think it's unlikely that there will be a quiet place like a conference room available for skyping. This is intended to be a symposium in the classic sense -- a social event -- rather than the modern academic sense. Second, my laptop is on its last legs and I actually wasn't even planning on bringing it. Someone can bring a better device, but it's going to have to be someone other than me, and we'll have to figure out where and when it can be done. Perhaps we can set aside some time in somoene's room.
These are problems that could probably be overcome. Please feel free to send me an email: My screen name with no spaces, [at] gmail.
On “Tax Credits and Subsidies”
George Orwell?
On “It’s not a war, and I am not a warrior.”
It's called a "slow burn." At least David finally got it off his chest.
On “The Henchman’s Diary”
Way to impress The Boss, chum!
(Others have already noted the space awesomeness of this post. I'll add that the September 18 entry sounds quite a lot like about half of my employment law intake interviews.)
On “It Seems Appropriate…”
Yeah, that's pretty much right. Any of those are nightmare scenarios, which is why I think you'd have to be stoned to think this proposed Constitutional amendment was a good idea.
On “Barack Obama And The Supertanker Of State”
What IS this new course? Where are we headed, or rather, where would he like to steer the ship? I can ubderstand the idea of a political realignment, an entrenchment of the Democratic party in suburbia, but what is the Obama vision for the country? Reagan, and Johnson and Eisenhower and FDR, were all able to articulate their visions even if the reality worked out to be different. Aside from a warm fuzzy feeling of moving past the crudest of our racial struggles and looking more to the government to address health care problems of individuals I do not know what Obama's future for the USA looks like. School me.
On “Depicting Christians”
Maybe. Sure, there are lots of denominations within Christianity. Or, one might look at it in a generalized sort of way. Or, one might make an assumption -- an assumption that the audience might challenge, an assumption that is as revealing about the culture as is the assumption that a character with no assigned religious identity is generically Christian.
An artist might wish to explore the impact of particular denominations on the culture, or that of Christianity in a more generalized sense. That's up to the artist.
I'm pointing out that there are some things about visual media that are going to come into play no matter what level of focus the artist chooses to use.
"
Of course I'm only addressing explicitly Christian characters. Universalized characters devoid of explicit religious identity afford us little if any meaningful opportunity to consider the role of religion, and in particular the dominant religion, in our society.
And a character who is not assigned a specific religious identity may very well be assumed to be Christian. But all that really tells us is that Christianity is the dominant and therefore "default" religious identity for our culture. And we all already knew that. It doesn't tell us whether Christianity is acting as a force for good or evil, for instance, or anything else.
But a character who we are told is Christian, well, that character requires us to confront Christianity, at least a little bit. That's when it gets interesting.
On “My Two Cents (Worth only half a cent 10 years from now…)”
Seems to me that Clinton was quite popular. He weathered scandals and impeachments and presided over very good economic times while running a budget surplus as Keynes would have said he should. The only critique of Clinton's economic policy in retrospect seems to be that he didn't build up the surplus into a war chest to prepare for coming bad times. This, however, seems like a well-nigh impossible task for anyone given the democratic pressures on our government (as Jason noted above).
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High speed rail is another bugaboo of mine, particularly here in California where it seems like it would be such a natural fit into our local economy. Most New Deal-era infrastructure projects came in early and under budget, with tolerable levels of graft and corruption. It's a bit different now.
I don't dislike the idea of investing in creating this kind of infrastructure, but I despaired from the beginning that it could be done in practice. Unfortuantely my all-too-easy predictions have come true; ten years and billions of dollars later not a single rail has been laid, we're told the high-speed portions of the track will be routed over existing (nonelectrified) rail lines laid in the nineteenth century, and the system won't carry passengers until ten years after the initial opening date.
If the public actually got the promised investment for something like the promised price tag at something approximating the original deliverability date, I'd be all over it. What's actually happening is of little economic benefit to anyone other than the graftors, serves as a dead lead weight on the state's budget, and will not deliver the promised infrastructure and corresponding economi benefit in the unlikely event that it is ever delivered.
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On “Eating Peas”
Yes, that's right. I'll blame my mind-fart on the pneumonia.