“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” -George Orwell
Tag Archives: Obama
Marriage Equality and the Importance of History
The audio of the oral arguments and the transcripts of this week’s Prop 8 case and the DOMA case. Continue reading
Yes. This is Racist.
More racist stuff. Continue reading
House of Cards
A show less about politics and more about the selfish desires that exist in human nature. Continue reading
In Defense of Liberal Arts
“How many Ph.D.s in philosophy do I need to subsidize?”
Guns
A pointless blog post about guns and gun violence that won’t solve anything. Continue reading
Vote.
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans – unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. -Karl Rove
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Weekend Reads
“If one of those babies were poor, I don’t suspect you’d want to punish her because her dad got laid off from his manufacturing job or because leukemia killed her older brother and bankrupted her parents just in time for her birth.” -Rob Delany Continue reading
Weekend Reads
Drones, Cap and Trade, off-the-record interviews and, of course, Rolling Stone magazine. Continue reading
“Conventional Wisdom.”
The iPad Mini is too expensive. Here’s me writing about it. Continue reading