Much as there is an eternal battle between good and evil being waged in the former-DDB’s soul, a similar battle between the pro- and anti-regulation sorts has been waged in argumentation for years. The pro- side are generally reasonable people, who at the increasingly radical fringes become militant treehuggers, meat-is-gender-politics people, and crusaders for Political [...]
…the persistence of these educational achievement gaps imposes on the United States the economic equivalent of a permanent national recession. A quote of a quote. See it here. The point, less subtly: a hell of a lot of people don’t get that when liberals are whining about educating the poor and giving health care to [...]
The interesting thing about Sarah Palin is how she seems to think that, for her, the rules should be different. To some extent the rules _are_ different for her: she’s clearly an idiot, her responses to any question are a combination of word salad and jingoism, and yet the only inhibitory effect this had on [...]
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I don’t really know why I bother linking to things like this article describing some of the Canadian healthcare myths. Oh wait, yes I do – because I secretly want somebody who reads this blog to make some idiotic fucking comment about what a bad idea single-payer coverage is so I can smash them with [...]
As someone who’s ranted many a time about the non-transportation issues involved in public transportation and urban development, I found this blurb pretty interesting: But even subtle growth can have a dramatic impact. The environmental activist group Friends of the Earth estimates that just 10 miles of a new four-lane highway create the equivalent lifetime [...]
I like good charts, so here’s one that displays the creeping socialism in the USA: Be very afraid! Frickin commies! (Got this from Conor Clarke‘s blog post for The Atlantic.)
Probably redundant for most of you, but considering the proto-discussion of a couple of months ago, about crime and drugs, Cory today posted a story that might be of interest. Turns out that the Netherlands isn’t producing enough criminals. Can you imagine this happening here? Obviously not. The US faces challenges that smaller, more homogeneous [...]
This is mighty/bizarre on so many different levels that I’m not sure my head will ever recover:
Great Gladwell article up over at The New Yorker about David vs. Goliath. Gladwell articles follow a particular pattern that goes like this: Example A: (The pressing basketball team as David) Thesis: (David can’t fight Goliath by his own rules) Example B: (Lawrence of Arabia as David) Thesis elaboration Example A cont: (History of basketball [...]
Digby: I just pray no fellatio was involved in the torture regime or there is going to be hell to pay.
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