Another note in a series on Is the American Dream Killing You? by Paul Stiles. OK, now to the really frustrating bits. Mr. Stiles wants, in a series of chapters on different kinds of problems that we can see from…
Another note in a series on Is the American Dream Killing You? by Paul Stiles. The prologue put me off right away. It’s addressed in the second-person singular and purports to describe my life as an overwhelmingly stressful combination of…
Another note in a series on Is the American Dream Killing You? by Paul Stiles. The subtitle of the book is “How ‘The Market’ Rules Our Life’. Mr. Stiles doesn’t do a good job of defining what he means by…
One of my new favorite blogs is Lawyers, Guns and Money; between the three bloggists, they have put together several posts that I have found both interesting and persuasive. Recently, David Watkins wrote about specious arguments from people who should…
OK, one reason Your Humble Blogger gets all confused is that it’s so difficult to tell the real phony journalists from the phony real journalists. Not that Bill O’Reilly is a journalist these days, I understand. He’s a … somethin’….
Nathan Newman is pissed off. Yes, it may be intemperate to call anti-unionism the date rape of corporate crime, but it must be frustrating as hell to go through all the conversations about what unions are doing wrong and why…
Those Gentle Readers who have an interest in matters scientific or Canadian should probably read The Wrathful Dispersion controversy: A Canadian perspective, over at q_pheever’s Roguish Chrestomathy. It’s a good outsider’s primer to the controversy here about what to teach…
A quick note—when I wrote the last post I had forgotten that Left Blogovia has proclaimed it Blog Against Racism day. This sort of thing actually gets up my nose, particularly since December First is still World AIDS Day, which…
John Scalzi over at Whatever came up with a meme that seemed entertaining to me: pick a song that has been covered a lot, and review five cover versions. Mr. Scalzi picks “Unchained Melody”, leading to a bit of discussion…
You know, YHB noted Falwell fighting for holy holiday, by Joe Garofoli in this morning’s Chronicle, and decided to blog about it. But really, I’d just get myself worked up over this whole stupid business. And you know, Mr. Falwell,…