Friday, March 11, 2022

I'm not recommending this SNL clip because it's funny. In a sense, I'm recommending it because it's not.

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Yes, I know. Complaining that Saturday Night Live isn't funny anymore has been a cliche for longer than most of the cast members have be...
Thursday, March 10, 2022

Not merely a villain but also a fool

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Excellent essay by Cory Doctorow on how (and how not to) break up tech giants like Google and the walking anti-trust violation formerly kno...
Wednesday, March 9, 2022

"Love Me, I'm a Liberal"

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A couple of threads converged to remind me of this. First, I've been thinking about the relationships between the young revolutionaries ...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Five years ago at the blog -- the Watergate debt

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Monday, March 13, 2017 The Washington Press Corps and the "Watergate debt" I don't want to exaggerate the magnitude of this, b...
Monday, March 7, 2022

"You say you want a revolution"

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This was going to be part of an upcoming post but I decided it worked better freestanding.  Back in the late sixties there was a surprising ...
Friday, March 4, 2022

Horrible Children

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I've been thinking a lot about infantilism and the alt-right, particularly the possibility that being immersed in that world might cause...
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Thursday, March 3, 2022

Two and a half threads worth your time (including a great Big Con reference)

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Twitter has loads of issue and a potential for abuse arguably second only to Faceb-- sorry, Meta, but unlike whatever the hell it's call...
Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Ten years ago at the blog

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  Friday, March 2, 2012 Bleeding heart Randians Once again, Joseph has left it to me to play bad cop on the McArdle beat. As you can see fro...
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Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Gentrification and Chinatown

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Roy Choi is one of the culinary stars of the 21st Century. You'd be hard pressed to find a chef who has done more to change the way p...
Monday, February 28, 2022

Sartre on Trolls

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Josh Marshall shares this extraordinarily sharp passage from John-Paul Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew,  which seems to capture the essenc...

No, Mr. Baquet, that wasn't what happened. We were there. We took notes.

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Following up from last week's post .  Dean Baquet speaking to  the New Yorker .  If I had to do that over again, oh, my God, I would do ...
Friday, February 25, 2022

In memory of Raymond Smullyan

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Smullyan's first career was as a stage magician, which is an almost perfect Chekhovian plot twist, surprising at first then nearly inevi...
Thursday, February 24, 2022

When Threads collide -- the MAGAization of crypto

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The public face of cryptocurrencies and NFTs may be liberal celebrities and trendy lifestyle journalists, but the political faction that has...
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

'We really did hit peak stupid' -- Linette Lopez on the return to reality-based markets

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Lopez was unfashionably early to this party, having pointed out for years the absurdity and precariousness of the hype and bullshit economy....
Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Who could have seen this coming?

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Comments in brackets. Virgin Hyperloop axes half its staff in focus on freight by Simeon Kerr and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson Virgin Hyperloop...