One thing I realize as I wade deeper and deeper into the wide, wide internet is just how vast and decentralized it truly is. There are many spaces here, many niches, nooks and crannies. I have blogged for the last few years almost exclusively about politics and economics with a little culture / fantasy fiction […]
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If you’re concerned about the deficit and you think that Rick Perry’s new tax proposal might be a good idea, you probably ought to take a look at this chart: It turns out that not only is this just a huge tax giveaway to the rich, Perry’s plan would actually raise $4.7 trillion fewer dollars […]
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Would modern audiences be interested in a new Star Trek series? I love Alyssa Rosenberg’s idea for a Star Trek reboot. Riffing off of various concerns that the show’s lack of a long story arc wouldn’t mesh with today’s audiences, she writes: [H]ave each season revolve around a long-arc mission and all of the things […]
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Can anti-Facebook marketing help new social networking site, Unthink, siphon off Facebook customers? The social media market may seem pretty saturated, especially with the entrance of Google Plus into the already crowded field. Facebook, of course, is the king of the social media mountain, and there’s always a scrappy new contender itching to topple the […]
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A number of commenters pushed back against me when I argued that taxing the rich, without fixing other injustices within our political system, would not be enough. Darren G warned that I was arguing “a straw man.” The recent poll published in the WSJ showed that 30% of the OWS protesters were motivated by ” […]
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I find most discussions of taxation mind-numbingly stupid. We have a terrible tax code. It’s full of bad incentives. It’s written by people in the thrall of public opinion or pledged to Grover Norquist’s silly no-new-taxes pledge. It’s an ad hoc disaster that makes many tax lawyers and tax software people very rich. Many people […]
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This short-film ad spot for designer Proenza Schouler is probably the most racist, disturbing, and bizarre thing I’ve seen in a long time. Designers Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough took a trip through the southwest and came up with their fall line of clothing inspired, apparently, by Native Americans they had seen on the road. Then […]
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Dr. Pepper has launched a new ad campaign for its new diet soft drink, Dr. Pepper Ten – a ten calorie beverage designed, apparently, to appeal to men. In fact, the new ad campaign makes it explicit that Dr. Pepper Ten is “not for women.” The ad campaign and soft drink were developed in an […]
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I want to recommend this chart-intensive post over at Business Insider for a really good illustration of why people are upset and should be protesting the vast and growing inequality in this country. However you parse the numbers, they simply don’t add up. Something is wrong and it needs to be fixed. And that’s why […]
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This response by an Occupy Wall Street protester to a Fox News reporter is pretty great – though surely Fox could have found a less eloquent, more ill-informed interlocutor? To my knowledge this was never aired anywhere but Youtube and various blogs. What Fox didn’t realize when they approached this guy is that he’s Jesse […]
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