It’s been quiet around here the last few days (and more or less for a while). The highly episodic nature of this blog for the last few months has been due to the usual stuff — summer, then the sheer joy of the start of the fall semester, combined with the shock of a new [...]
Archive for October 2010
Belatedly…A Bloggy Announcement
October 28, 2010Live Blogging Joe Haldeman
October 26, 201012: 10 Joe Haldeman is talking now about typing vs. digital tools for creative writing. Took typing as soon as he could in school — only boy in the class of girls — thought, “this is the life for me.” Some time people have illusions that the book rules the writer — but once it [...]
Now That’s An Interesting Approach To Research…
October 25, 2010Just a bit of Monday silliness before diving back into the struggle. How’s this for a protocol (in a study that shall remain nameless to protect the proofreading reputations of its authors) through which the researchers plan to test a new scheme for tissue classification: Since the problem was rather small—larger data set are being [...]
Time to Go Viral: Mark Twain Was Right/Eight False “Facts” On Which To Fight This Election
October 24, 2010Via Digby, I came across Dave Johnson’s essential piece, “Eight False Things The Public “Knows” Prior to Election Day.” Here’s the link, and here’s the core of the post: 1) President Obama tripled the deficit. Reality: Bush’s last budget had a $1.416 trillion deficit. Obama’s first budgetreduced that to $1.29 trillion. 2) President Obama raised taxes, which [...]
Lest We Forget: How The Banks Are REALLY Screwing Us In The Foreclosure Mess
October 23, 2010Everyone, and I mean everyone you ought to be reading, has been working through the mechanics and the meaning of the foreclosure fraud being performed on the nation by our biggest banks. For a quick overview, head on over to Rortybomb, just read your way down, and check out Naked Capitalism as well. I promise [...]
Isn’t This The Kind of Thing You’d Want In Writing?
October 22, 2010So now, via The Raw Story, we learn that the Republican Christine O’Donnell, running for the Senate seat in Delaware has admitted to a clear violation of campaign finance laws by using campaign funds to pay part of her rent. Her excuse? She got permission: Her attorney maintains someone with the Federal Election Commission approved [...]
Comforting the Comfortable Part Two, or Sullivan’s Follies Redux
October 20, 2010In the last post, I followed John Cole in snorting derisively at Andrew Sullivan and James Joyner for demanding that we honor the rich and super rich rather than merely tolerating them. In that post I concentrated on the pure wrongness of the concept of taxation that the two offending writers presented. Here I want [...]
Comforting the Comfortable, Or Why Andrew Sullivan Isn’t a Reliable Guide To The Pathologies of the American Uber-Class
October 20, 2010Over at Balloon Juice, a number of posts culminating here, and a gazillion (technical term alert) comments, have fully roasted Andrew Sullivan (and James Joyner) for their whimpering over the hurt feelings of the deserving rich. That last link from John Cole decisively rends from limb to limb the pathetic straw men trotted out by [...]
Consider This the “I Don’t Know Much About Music But I Know What I Like” moment of your day.
October 18, 2010I am working on some more substantive new stuff for the blog (oh really? — ed.), but for just because I love you, here’s a little amuse bouche. Check out the video at this link. Then tell me your hand doesn’t hurt. I can’t count as fast as that man plays the violin. Image: “Violin” [...]
I Love the Smell of Godwin in the Morning: Rich Iott/Gay Mexican Muslim edition
October 18, 2010I’m as jaded on the snark-subtitled Hitler-in-the-Bunker vids as the next blogger, but this version did have a bit of a kick to it. So in the spirit of Monday, enjoy:
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