What’s Left of the Left Even then, these economists recognized what a paltry, bowdlerized proxy for the left they were: six academics, and by any broad ideological standard a pretty moderate group, comfortable with markets and free trade. But liberals had long ago ceased to rally around class. “In the United States,” Blinder told me […]
Category Archives: serious stuff
nah, i don’t think we’re screwed
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Rules of Misbehavior Dan Savage, the brilliant and foul-mouthed sex columnist, has become one of the most important ethicists in America. Are we screwed? […] If Savage’s ethical guidelines—disclosure, autonomy, mutual exchange, and minimum standards of performance—seem familiar or intuitive, it’s probably because they also govern expectations in the markets for goods and services.
“So you mean I’m likely to lose my job because these people won’t pay up?”
Thursday, March 3, 2011
How to Build a Progressive Tea Party Imagine a parallel universe where the Great Crash of 2008 was followed by a Tea Party of a very different kind. Enraged citizens gather in every city, week after week—to demand the government finally regulate the behavior of corporations and the superrich, and force them to start paying […]
For me, it’s avoiding being a douchebag
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Why don’t female rock stars have groupies? “No, ladies in bands don’t get ANY action,” Neko Case, a woman Playboy readers once deemed the “Sexiest Babe of Indie Rock,” tweeted on Saturday. “Back me up ladies. no one believes this.”
base64 is the devil
Monday, January 24, 2011
Why You Should Never Search For Free WordPress Themes in Google or Anywhere Else Out of the top 10 search results on Google for WP themes, 8 have themes that include bogus code. via Metafilter
“This cannot possibly be right”
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Did somebody just try to buy the British government? I have come to the absolute conclusion that foundation X [sic] is completely genuine and sincere and that it directly wishes to make the United Kingdom one of the principal points that it will use to disseminate its extraordinarily great wealth into the world at this […]
and yet, the National Post is still worse
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Reinstate Rick Salutin << Murray Dobbin's Blog That the Globe would fire him is indicative of the final stage of the Canadian political and economic elite’s betrayal of the country’s traditions and values. It’s all just business now and anything that isn’t business – certainly anything that questions it’s “natural” dominance – is simply dispensable. […]
So, about the Old Testament
Thursday, September 16, 2010
The Infamous Brad – Christians in the Hand of an Angry God (part 3) And when a group of Pharisees caught an adulterous couple, they figured they had the perfect trap for Jesus. You see, the holiness code very specifically prescribes the death penalty for adultery (Leviticus 20:10). However, Roman law said that only the […]
Yep.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Psychotherapy Brown Bag: Rumination: How just thinking about the problem can make the problem worse
Derivatives
Friday, July 9, 2010
Johann Hari – How Goldman Sachs gambled with the world’s poor – and won There are some smaller explanations that account for some of the price rise, but not all. It’s true the growing demand for biofuels was gobbling up much-needed agricultural land – but that was a gradual process that wouldn’t explain a violent […]
