Sorry that I didn’t post the fun links on Friday, but I was in a trivia contest that superceded my blogging and then I had to celebrate after my team won (we also got a pretty bitching sword as a prize). So here are some links to get you through the shortened week. This is [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Semi-famous historian and bourbon drinking buddy Tom Woods makes one of the best points that I’ve heard in a long while against the idea that terrorists attack us because we live in a free society that allows us to do all sorts of decadent things: In the 1980s, the Ayatollah Khomeini called for a jihad [...]
She’s more likely to turn a trick with a cop than be arrested by one. That’s the for real finding by University of Chicago economist and Freakonomics co-author Steven Levitt and Columbia University sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh: They estimate that roughly 3 percent of all tricks performed by prostitutes who aren’t working with pimps are freebies [...]
Today, I started reading John Lukacs’ The Duel, which describes the opening eighty days of fighting between Great Britain and Germany in World War II. The book was written in 1990, but one paragraph caught my eye because it almost reads like apre -emptive strike against the neoconservative fantasy that spreading democracy across the globe [...]
This alarm clock would keep me from hitting snooze. (From Marginal Revolution.) God bless YouTube! Without it, I probably never would have known about the hysterical Jon Lajoie. (He has a lot of other videos to, if you look through the related section, and all the ones I saw were at least pretty funny. And, [...]
University of Pennsylvania sociology professor and author of Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory Randall Collins argues in Foreign Policy that suicide bombers are usually members of the middle class, who are not easily disposed to violence, which is precisely why they choose a method of killing that requires absolutely no confrontation. That’s all very interesting, and [...]
The New Republic has gone through all of the newsletters that have borne Ron Paul’s name over the years and found some really horrible comments, mainly about gays and blacks. (The author of the piece, James Kirchick also talks about Ron Paul’s attraction to wacky, conspiracy-ish views about the Council on Foreign Relations and the [...]
OSU Can Suck It, or, Why College Football Needs a Playoff System
Posted: January 8, 2008 in UncategorizedFor two straight years, Ohio State’s football team has been selected to compete in the championship game, only to be humiliated by an SEC team. In fact, out of the nine times Ohio State has played an SEC team in a bowl game, they have won exactly zero times. The lesson: the SEC is the [...]
This is the RIAA’s wet dream. (From Hit and Run.) Maybe the coolest video from 2007–violence in nature is so awesome! Who likes early seventies haircuts? (Last two links via the Agitator.) What were you thinking, Scottie Pippen!? This short film demonstrates why you shouldn’t mess with people using fake spiders….or real ones for that [...]
Well here are the results. My predictions on the Democratic side were pretty much spot on, and I’m very pleased with the results. Obama is far less likely to have a belligerent foreign policy than Clinton and his domestic policy would probably be far saner than Edwards’. If in November, it comes down to Obama [...]
