Andrew Sullivan, whose writing I generally adore, is, I think, really wrong on an important aspect of horse-race analysis for the presidential election. His prescription for Obama at the Democratic Convention: … if I were to offer a single piece of advice to the campaign, it would be to use the convention to declare that …
Monthly Archive: August 2012
Aug 23 2012
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Twisted Sister joined a list of other artists telling Romney/Ryan to stop using their music, but this is especially interesting to me, because how do Romney and Ryan not realize that they are, in fact, the “it” we’re no longer gonna take? Jed Groettum
Aug 22 2012
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I believe that it is possible to believe women and to support WikiLeaks at the same time without moral hypocrisy, and I believe that those across the left who seem to have a problem with holding those two simple ideas in their heads at the same time need to ask themselves what accountability actually means. …
Aug 19 2012
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Is fantasy intrinsically hostile to technology? That is, was Tolkien simply drawing out what is already there in the genre? Or has he limited it in unnecessary ways? What would a fantasy that embraces technology look like? Arthur Weasley’s fascination with Muggle tech in the Harry Potter books is simply comical — though a great …
Aug 19 2012
Alexander Aan and Me, Ctd.
An update for my tens of readers. The White House petition for Alexander Aan pushed by my employing organization failed to achieve orbit. Ironically, that failure has arguably garnered more attention than the effort itself. Anyway, I had some strong feelings about said failure, and wrote about it at Friendly Atheist in the form of …
Aug 19 2012
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There are no rights in nature, only in a society with a legal system and a police force. Does Copyright Matter? by Tim Parks | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
Aug 19 2012
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My dear young friend,” said Mustapha Mond, “civilization has absolutely no need of nobility or heroism. These things are symptoms of political inefficiency. In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic. Conditions have got to be thoroughly unstable before the occasion can arise. Where there are wars, …
Aug 19 2012
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I don’t want good causes like secularism and skepticism to die because they’re infested with people who see issues of equality as mission drift. I want Deep Rifts. I want to be able to truthfully say that I feel safe in this movement. I want the misogynists, racists, homophobes, transphobes, and downright trolls out of …
Aug 17 2012
You are Stuck with Joe Biden
So there is this small flurry of rumors fluttering about the murkier reaches of the Beltway media saying that President Obama has been courting Hillary Clinton to join him on the 2012 ticket in place of Joe Biden, and these rumors of course have nothing to do with the fact that Romney is not only …
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