On the Flipboard. I call it Things to Read. In this issue: Victor Davis Hanson’s “An American Satyricon” Robert Stacy McCain’s “The Columbia Journalism Review is (Still) Decadent and Depraved” Jessica Khoury’s “Is It Science Fiction” An excerpt from Jordan Belfort’s Memoir, “The Wolf of Wall Street” And much much more (well, more anyway)!
Like a Bandit, I made out. Like a bandit. The list: William Shakespeare’s Star Wars – Still reading it, and while i detect clunky moments, when it’s on, it sizzles. Two Gentlemen of Lebowski – A friend of mine summed it up as “so much more spot-on than necessary.” I concur. World War One: A Short History – “In four… Read More The Yuletime Haul of Books: Trenches, Emperors, and the Knave Doth Abide
Sarah Hoyt addresses the elephant in in the doublet: Anyway, so every author agrees Henry VIII as a young man was a true renaissance man, good at everything and so very good looking. And every author wonders what dread disease caused him to turn not just into a murderous tyrant, but a stupid murderous tyrant… Read More Henry VIII and His Desperate Dynasty
Fat Bastard in 2010: ObamaCare is Going to save us all, even the Republicans! (Fisked for you entertainment) Pudgy McHeartstop in 2014: Let’s face it, ObamaCare is Terrible. Granted, Mikey’s the Whale is just engaging in the standard leftward pivot that almost everyone who was paying attention predicted back in the day, the thrust of… Read More Micheal Moore Argues With Micheal Moore
Matt Yglesias asks an interesting question: “If Elves, Hobbits, and Men can interbreed in Middle-Earth, aren’t they the same species?” I’m not sure if the ability to breed entirely defines a species (as Yglesias mentions, we interbred with Neanderthals, and I still think they’re classified separately, though some say otherwise), but I’d call it a… Read More On the Question of Human-Hobbit Interbreeding
Let us assume they are serious, and this “holacracy” is their real intent as opposed to the kind of window dressing that small companies use to mask their transition to big companies. It’s still hogwash. Labor is conditional upon employment: one works because one is paid. People whose work is unsatisfactory are thus a… Read More Zappos is Going to Have No Bosses, Say the Bosses
This interviewer kept trying to get him to embrace the orthodox, bien-pensant progressive viewpoint on the music industry, and he kept refusing to. And it’s not like he didn’t have fair warning: Is your sense of the music industry these days fairly apocalyptic, or is it mellowing, or…? You seemed fairly skeptical/ cynical about it a… Read More Dave Thomas of Pere Ubu is Awesome
Talking Points Memo: (via Drudge) Massachusetts State Police on Friday confiscated 1,250 bags of heroin during a traffic stop — and many of the bags were labeled “Obama care.” Other bags were labeled “Kurt Cobain.” I’m just glad they’ve found new ways to brand the junk. I feared that The Wire-era styles like “WMD” were still… Read More ObamaCare Gets the Metaphor it Deserves
This actually looks interesting…
The true believer truly believes. Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis — how incentives influence behavior — to government. It shows how elected officials and bureaucrats pursue personal aggrandizement as much as people do in the… Read More George Will Explains it Very Slowly to Barack Obama
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