Abigail Rine has a triumphant piece at The Atlantic about how some Evangelicals are rethinking the whole virginity thing: In a recent summit on human trafficking at Johns Hopkins University, kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart made some surprising remarks about why… Continue Reading
Sayeth NewDealer: Mega-Conglomerates and international trade are not relatively knew. They are as old as civilization. The Mega Conglomerate can be dated to the days of the various East and West Indies Companies if not before. Also Llyod’s of London.… Continue Reading
Matthew Yglesias defense Qualify Coffee’s “coffee roaster internship” program: Their calculus is that, rather than picking who to hire first and then train them, it makes more sense to train first and see who does the best job of taking… Continue Reading
Will Truman writes about one of the latest twists in the security-obsessed United States: the push to lower lower legal blood alcohol limits. Will’s claim that we are unable to accept even minimal amounts of risk seems obvious to me,… Continue Reading
Just saw the new Star Trek movie today. It’s… loud. But is it good? Nob posted a thread many days ago complaining that it seemed like adapted fanfic. And there’s some validity there. But there’s some other issues too, below… Continue Reading
Clancy gave me a wonderful gift today: A day off. This was made more awesome by the fact that it’s not like she really gets much in the way of days off. What she does get, however, is time away… Continue Reading
Last January’s experiment was fun and I’m leaving a week from tomorrow to go visit family in the Midwest prior to Leaguefest 2013, so we should be able to finish off this round of the ask-anything game right before then.… Continue Reading
Food: [F1] I hate finding out that there’s a kind of meat that I haven’t eaten yet. Now I need to figure out how to get me some swamp rat. [F2] I didn’t think I wanted to know what was… Continue Reading
Friday a week ago, I’d had an unusually long day with Lain and she was unusually fussy. So when Clancy got home from work, I asked if she could take care of the little lady. She could, and I was… Continue Reading
Last weekend, my Facebook feed depicted a synchronized outpouring of appreciation for mothers on Mother’s Day. These stood out though: Awww. This is worth inspecting, and not just because it speaks to the increasing use of mobile devices to post… Continue Reading