Okay, walk over here for a second. This is Door Number One. Behind Door Number One I take a few swings at the Dalai Lama (being the gentleman he is, he doesn’t swing back.) The reason I swing at him is some some stuff he says about not spending your whole life working and sacrificing […]
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Nobody expected the former CEO of Godfather Pizza, Herman Cain, to lead the Republican field. It was easy to brush him off as inexperienced and politically incoherent – at first. But with his poll numbers on the rise as Texas governor Rick Perry’s sun sets, I’m beginning to have doubts about my doubts. A new NBC/Wall […]
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When I wrote about the Topeka, Kansas city council’s move to decriminalize domestic violence in the city I assumed that public outcry and backlash would drive the law into the rocks. Surely once the city council had been barraged with angry phone calls, protests, and bad press they would back off and consider less extreme […]
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This chart sums up pretty well what I was trying to say in my defense of commerce post. Keeping the state in one corner and markets in another is a good rule of thumb. That’s why I advocate for a state that mostly provides safety nets like universal healthcare, and let’s markets operate as freely […]
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Protestors affiliated with the “Occupy Wall Street” protests wave signs and banners outside 1185 Park Avenue. I’ve thrown cold water on the ‘We are the 99%’ slogan two times (here and here) pointing out that wealth inequality is more starkly divided between the bottom 80-or-so percent and the top 20-or-so percent, rather than the top […]
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Mike Konczal has an excellent post up parsing out the data and ideology found on the ‘We are the 99%’ tumblr. The whole thing is terrific so you should click over there and read it and then come back… He concludes: Upon reflection, it is very obvious where the problems are. There’s no universal health […]
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People are fond of saying ‘it’s the economy, stupid’ whenever they talk about politics. But I wonder if we should say ‘it’s the culture war, stupid’ whenever we talk about economics. Recently, Redstate’s Erick Erickson started a new tumblr called ‘We are the 53%’ as a counter to the ‘We are the 99%’ tumblr that has […]
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You should really spend a few minutes reading Forbes contributor J Maureen Henderson’s post on how to improve your writing. This bit is my favorite: There’s a difference between making everything about you and infusing yourself into everything you write. The former is lazy, narcissistic and all too common. The latter is how you develop […]
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Seattle has its own caped crusader – sort of. Phoenix Jones wears a costume and claims to fight crime, but vigilantism isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be, and now Jones has been arrested on assault charges after an incident involving pepper-spray and a case of poor judgment: Jones is out of jail after being […]
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This has been making the rounds: To an extent, this is true. The western, industrialized world is far richer than Africa and most of Asia and most of South America. The poor and working class in America may indeed have hunger issues, but they are not starving the way that the poor of famine-swept Somalia […]
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