I picked up Penn Jillette’s new book God, No!, yesterday, and am already most of the way through it. It’s pitched as an atheist’s version of the “Ten Commandments”. (This apparently was prompted by an exchange Penn had with Glenn Beck that resulted in Penn dashing off his own version of the Ten Commandments and [...]
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Hell, No
Posted in Agnostic Reads the Bible, Church & State, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Humor, Libertarian Problem Solving, News & Current Events, Politics, Read Your Bible, Religion, Science, Things That Suck, Uncategorized, Writing on October 3, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Our Rights Rest in the Hands of an Scatology- & Animal-Porn Director – Which is a Lucky Thing
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Legal Issues, Media, News & Current Events, Religion, Things That Suck, Uncategorized, Writing on April 20, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Startlingly clear-headed, absolutely right-on interview at Salon with Ira Isaacs, the defendant in a long-running censorship trial, about the absurdity of the obscenity doctrine and the stupidity of the government’s prosecution. Trigger Warning: censorship
The Royal Nonesuch
Posted in Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Race, School, Uncategorized, Writing on January 4, 2011 | 13 Comments »
OK, so here’s as good a place as any to weigh in with my take on the Huckleberry Finn business. UPDATE: At commenter Dan M’s suggestion, I have put in a jump cut here, for reasons of length and to facilitate a “trigger warning”. TRIGGER WARNING: Contains literary criticism. Also, text involving racial slurs.
Errata
Posted in Culture, General, How Capitalism Will Ruin You, Humor, News & Current Events, Uncategorized, Writing on August 13, 2010 | Comments Off
This is hilarious. Some guy in London is going around affixing “journalism warning labels” on copies of local papers. He includes a template so you can print your own.
The Future Of Publishing is Here
Posted in Books, Economics, Writing on August 10, 2010 | 11 Comments »
And it apparently doesn’t involve paper: E-books are becoming more popular by the minute thanks to devices like the Kindle, Nook, and iPad, but major dead tree publishers have been hesitant to go all in—until now. Dorchester Publishing, which describes itself as the “oldest independent mass market publisher in America,” has decided to ditch its [...]
I Have No Idea What This Means
Posted in Bloggin, Humor, Writing on July 14, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I write likeDavid Foster Wallace I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing! The internet tells me this is true and the internet is never wrong.
Bad Arguments Against Command Economies
Posted in Economics, Writing on January 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In an interesting post about a new book on modern capitalism, there is this example of why command economies fail: My late colleague Evsey Domar, who was, among other things, a student of the Soviet economy, told us how the planning bureau began by setting production quotas for paper factories in tons per year. The [...]
Indeterminate Treats: A Review of How to Teach Physics To Your Dog
Posted in Books, Reviews, Science, Writing on January 13, 2010 | 4 Comments »
How to Teach Physics to Your Dog by Chad Orzel is probably the book that I have enjoyed the most in the last year. It helps that I have a deep interest in physics and the history of physics (Uncertainty was another recent read at the top of my year’s best), but the book is [...]
The Platonic Form of Bitter Old Man
Posted in Books, Culture, Media, Technology, Writing, You Kids! Get Off My Lawn! on October 29, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Holy crap is this guy off his rocker: The book is fast becoming the despised Jew of our culture. Der Jude is now Der Book. Hi-tech propogandists tell us that the book is a tree-murdering, space-devouring, inferior form of technology; that society would simply be better-off altogether if we euthanized it even as we begin [...]
Dumbest Painfully Serious Political Metaphor of the Day
Posted in Bloggin, Conservative Bullshit Debunked, Culture, General, Hopey-Changey, Media, News & Current Events, Politics, Smackdown!, Technology, Writing on October 28, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Chris Wilson, at Slate, hips us to a looming political disaster for Obama: he’s setting himself up as a fascist, condescending, reactionary, moralizing, religious cultist because the White House switched to the wrong Web publishing platform. Apparently he means it. The White House recently ported its Web content to an open-source platform, Drupal, about which [...]
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