Designs Beyond Human Abilities via kapowee Dept. of Disputation: Red Sex, Blue Sex: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker At The New Yorker: In Regnerus’s survey, the teen-agers who espouse this new morality are tolerant of premarital sex (and of contraception and abortion) but are themselves cautious about pursuing it. Regnerus writes, “They are interested […]
What Sarah Palin Is Saying By Anil Dash: Read this; it is important. Dash does a great job of unpacking Palin's speech patterns, phrasing, and signifiers and using it to illustrate what is clearly a dangerous sub-text that now dominates large portions of the Republican establishment and its discourse. If Election ’08 Were a Science […]
The kitchen isn’t a wreck but one of the chairs is pulled out and there is a basket of laundry left on the floor. I’m too exhausted to do anything about these errant items quite yet so I leave them where they are. I make some coffee and retire to the living room to drink […]
How the financial collapse killed libertarianism. By Jacob Weisberg at Slate Magazine: The worst thing you can say about libertarians is that they are intellectually immature, frozen in the worldview many of them absorbed from reading Ayn Rand novels in high school. Cake Wrecks …as a follow-up to Mike’s Amazing Cakes: the other end of […]
Charlie’s Diary: On finishing Free O’Reilly tech books and Safari contest at B²: cool Now is the Time Sen. Bernie Sanders: Let me be specific about what a "Rebuild America" program should include… 10 Very Good Reasons Why You Should Grow a Giant Beard I'm a particular fan of #s 1-4 + 9. Shouts & […]
I’m thinking that Americans (i.e., “we” and/or “us”) need to get over this bullshit obsession we have with taxes. I’ve been thinking about this recently and I’m convinced that the mythologizing of the Boston Tea Party and that blasted James Otis quote have undermined us from the beginning. I can’t remember an election cycle (Presidential […]
The Things He Carried at The Atlantic (November 2008): Schneier and I walked to the security checkpoint. “Counter terrorism in the airport is a show designed to make people feel better,” he said. “Only two things have made flying safer: the reinforcement of cockpit doors, and the fact that passengers know now to resist hijackers.” […]
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Well, the 2008 garden has been put to bed! We hadn’t done much with it in about a month or so. Tough to say how much we got out of the garden this year. I’m tempted to say that we bit off more than we could chew this year; A. & I over-estimated how much […]
At the end of a long square chamber, I’m locked into a narrow channel that runs along its back (front?) wall. It’s just barely wide enough to crouch down in. There is a breathy howl from the far end of the chamber. I can see movement but not the creature itself. It is coming for […]