Category Archives: United States

I am finally starting to ask the questions, as friends and colleagues start taking positions and debate the substance of Clinton versus Sanders.  His website with economic positions is here.  I have quoted for most, and added a little bit … Continue reading →

If you are me, it is when reading things like this comment by Michael Foody on a Marginal Revolution blog entry about Brita water filter that detects and orders replacement filters. Using disposable consumer goods to solve ever smaller problems … Continue reading →

“The court invalidates the marriage laws of more than half the states and orders the transformation of a social institution that has formed the basis of human society for millennia, for the Kalahari Bushmen and the Han Chinese, the Carthaginians … Continue reading →

PG: One of your most memorable moments is Sally’s sleepover at a friend’s house. She’s watching TV and starts masturbating to an actor on “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” The friend’s mother catches her and sends Sally home to her mother, … Continue reading →

The article headline and first paragraph  tease us: Texas has approved textbooks for use in public school that say negative things about Muslims… Texas’ State Board of Education has approved new history textbooks, but only after defeating six and seeing … Continue reading →

I was struck by this quote: Ms. Monaco and other administration officials said the government has been planning for months for the possibility that the virus might be brought to the United States by someone from Africa. And yet somehow, … Continue reading →

I think back to the tailgate: the man blowing cigar smoke in my face, the man who mockingly yelled, “Thanks for letting us use your name!”, the group who yelled at us to “go the fuck home,” the little waif … Continue reading →

Bandcamp alerted me that Wussy Duo has an EP available online. It’s pretty nice. This was a limited hand-made release for Record Store Day 2013. The physical version is now out of print, so we’ve made it available digitally. Words … Continue reading →

Imagine if you went to a neighbor and asked to borrow a rake, and the neighbor said “Sure thing, but hey the rake is valuable, so how about paying me $5 a month for it?” and you said “OK that … Continue reading →

At a White House meeting on working families last month, Mr. Obama included Ms. Wojcicki — who has two young children with her husband, the Google co-founder Sergey Brin, from whom she is separated — in a discussion of workplace … Continue reading →

Like every first-year undergraduate in philosophy, Dawkins thinks he can put to rest the causal argument for God’s existence. If God caused the world, then what caused God? Of course the great philosophers, Anselm and Aquinas particularly, are way ahead … Continue reading →

From the FBI uniform crime reporting statistics, the levels and trends of violent and property crime for the five cities in California about 500,000 in population that are in the database.  I was a little bit surprised to see them … Continue reading →

Some background: On the eve of the Great Recession, many conservative pundits and commentators — and quite a few economists — had a worldview that combined faith in free markets with disdain for government. Such people were briefly rocked back … Continue reading →