It seems like the BBC is always offering New and Interesting studies that fail to be either. I don’t know if science in the UK is so devoted to AGW that there are no resources for anything else, or if the BBC can no longer tell what’s news and what isn’t. Of course, I have… Read More My Brain is Sluggish; it Must be Tuesday.
First, a consideration of the media coverage: Then, a comparison of deeds similar to Akin’s: Feel free to spread ’round teh interwebz. Smitty at Other McCain mentions that the boy in question is above Minnesota’s age of consent, so technically this is not statutory rape. Which undoubtedly makes it all fine.
Dear Progressives, You are allowed, given your insistence on your spiritual superiority, to treat violence as some kind of gaucherie that the Unwashed perform. Such is at least consistent. But if you yourself stoop to violence, do not attempt, after being disarmed, to plead against violence on the grounds that your violence was only ideologically motivated.… Read More “Don’t Shoot Me, It Was Not About You, It Was About What This Place Stands For.”
Riposte Publishing is about to unload my first book! So get your Sophist on, y’all.
Era of Philosophy Immediate Goal Overall Goal Classical Organization of a Chaotic World Survival Modern Understanding of a Rational World Utopia Post-Modern Self-Awareness in an Unknowable World Avoidance of Guilt
Mark Kitto, writing in Prospect Magazine, explains in a long article why he is leaving China, where he has lived for decades. His insights are manifold, and worth reading, but I noticed this: The government is so scared of the people it prefers not to lead them. In rural China, village level decisions that require… Read More China Does Not Escape its History
Yesterday I spent with the baby, who is still below that blessed age when she can process what’s on the television, so I can watch whatever I want. What I seemed to want was documentaries. To wit: 1. Absinthe, a film that labored like a stevedore to take away everything bohemian or dangerous about the… Read More Absinthe and Posers
I’m starting to thing this pundit business is easy. Two days ago I posited the following: So let’s look at the kind of guy Mitt Romney is. He’s a business guy. He’s managerial. He’s serious. He’s sober. He plans and works and works and plans. Which is to say, he does not fly by the seat… Read More Paul Ryan and the Vice Presidency
Scott Biddle finds the head of the nail and smacks it down like the Driver does to Cook’s hand (finally saw Drive last night). We start out excited about something and plunge into it without an appreciation for how much effort it will take to do it right. I think I had a fairly good understanding… Read More Blogging is Thankless Work
Content Blues 