Saturday, September 14, 2013

Transactional Morality

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You have to give Conor Friedersdorf some credit for writing about a contentious issue with sensitivity to both sides of said issue. But as ...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

School Daze

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As someone with a 12-year-old daughter who is bright, inquisitive, and certainly would benefit from the college experience (were it not a r...

Blind Justice

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Congrats to the state of Iowa for going beyond the usual bounds of reason. You can't even parody this sort of thing, it writes itself....

Threat Averted

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Praise Jebus, the Million 25 Muslim Peacenik Idiot March Presence was thwarted by 235 kajillion would-be Sons of Anarchy who are peaceful...
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The Summer of George

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In a media-driven culture, one tends at the beginning of each calendar year to wonder what weird, unpredictable things fate (or, more pract...
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Sunday, September 08, 2013

Everything Looks Like a Nail

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As the paramilitarization of even semi-rural backwater police departments continues apace, it behooves one to ask to what eventual end. Be...
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New York State of Mind

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I wonder if Bloomberg ever gets tired of being a jerkoff. If he had his way, he'd just cancel the election and appoint Christine Quinn...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Syria-sly, Folks

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These geopolitical strategies and predictions are interesting enough, until considering all the possible ramifications and permutations giv...

Cleo (1995-2013)

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Four months ago, I had not one but two cats that were eighteen years of age. You may recall that we had to put Shadow down in May, but C...
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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Capitalism Y'all

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I think most of us can agree one at least one thing -- when you attempt to underpin an essential economic principle with observations from ...

Tipping Point

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Catching up a little further on the musings of the past week, Ed has an interesting post about the most likely pivot point of the current ...
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Stop and Frisk

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Obviously there are grand racial implications to the whole "stop and frisk" deal, but stupidly, I persist in asking the (I believ...

Quit Parade

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So Dave has dialed back to one-a-week, and now TBogg is apparently checking out, at least for the time being. Too bad, but ultimately it ...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

Slave System

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So let's see if we understand this correctly:  six months after Johnny Manziel supposedly got (depending on whether you believe the NCA...

The Great Unwinding

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The question of when the Fed stops handing money to rentier kajillionaires to prop up the smoke-and-mirrors casino economy (instead of to w...
Sunday, August 04, 2013

The Idealistic Cynic (or The Cynical Idealist)

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I've been going through a bit of a dry spell lately as far as posting, and there are plenty of reasons for that -- job; family; small t...
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Saturday, August 03, 2013

Happy Birthday, Tom Brady

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Just a friendly reminder that the game that kicked off Brady's ascension into the NFL elite was decided by probably the single bigges...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

America the Lootiful; Or, Detroit Hock City

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The estimable Charlie LeDuff has news for all y'alls looking at Detroit's tribulations and having your SMH moment at "those pe...
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Ownership Society

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Let's see if by chance anything at all unrelated to royal babies or Anthony Weiner's cock might be happening in this crazy planet o...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Weiner? I Nearly Killed Her!

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Carlos Danger Anthony Weiner's problem is not specifically that he's a sexting fool; his problem is that he is apparently a full-bl...