January 2011
“1) You
Charges: Your brain’s been cobbled together over millions of years of...”
– The 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2010 | The Beast
“Critics of Social Security and Medicare frequently invoke the words and ideals...”
– Tea Party Patron Saint Ayn Rand Applied for Social Security, Medicare Benefits | Firedoglake
“Even if you’re a moderate Hayek-Friedman pro-welfare-state libertarian who does...”
– Liberaltarianism Lives
“Taxation, presumably, is coercive because the government simply orders you to...”
– Liberaltarians: Taxes, justice and coercion | The Economist
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“MCCONNELL: If the president is willing to do what I and my members would do...”
– ThinkProgress » McConnell: Sure I’ll Work With Obama, As Long As He ‘Is Willing To Do What I And My Members Would Do Anyway’
“We worked very hard to keep our fingerprints off of these proposals,” McConnell...”
– Strict Obstructionist - Magazine - The Atlantic
“I mean, I am all for some modest sense of stewardship in the name of The...”
– Who Is IOZ?: The Extrinsic Finality of the Union
“If every person in the world was like Sarah Palin, there probably wouldn’t even...”
– Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.)
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“I am, fundamentally, old fashioned about this stuff: I think of the world as...”
– Power, Baby, Power | Mother Jones
“it contains an implicit conviction that libertarian notions of tax and...”
– Power, Baby, Power | Mother Jones
“There is little doubt in my mind now that the prevailing sentiment of the South...”
– The Literary Heroism Of U.S. Grant - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic
“There was a time when slavery was not profitable, and the discussion of the...”
– The Literary Heroism Of U.S. Grant - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic
“It’s not like I don’t understand the fear behind this hysteria. My...”
– The Pain - When Will It End?
“Yet when he sits down to type, Julian Assange reverts to an antiquated habit...”
– Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
“The horrendous shootings in Tuscon have certainly inspired a lot of drivel from...”
– Radio commentary, January 15, 2011 « LBO News from Doug Henwood
blog at izs.me: An Open Letter to JavaScript... →
izs:
I got this email last night from Sean Silva:
I was browsing the code for your npm.js project (this file in particular: https://github.com/isaacs/npm/blob/master/npm.js), and noticed you using a style where you line up your commas under the ‘r’ of your var statements, and under your [ and {…
“What kind of country have we become, where we can shoot each other even as our...”
– Who Is IOZ?: Religion Nuance
“At another blog but by regular CT commenter ‘Davis X. Machina’
“Ms....”
– Hoisted from comments — Crooked Timber
“This shouldn’t happen in this country, or anywhere else, but in a free society,...”
– – John Green, father of nine-year-old Christina Green, who was killed in Saturday’s Tucson shootings.
John Green Gets It | The Agitator
“I think what’s revealing is that liberals, who by and large would prefer a...”
– Libertarian responsibilities: Where liberals have become more libertarian | The Economist
“The Affordable Care Act is precisely this. It is exactly the result of 30 years...”
– Libertarian responsibilities: Where liberals have become more libertarian | The Economist
“describe a striking set of experiments that may be of interest to ICCI readers,...”
– The Smurf Studies: Do 7-month-olds have a “social sense”? | Davie Yoon’s blog
“Bush regards the missing W.M.D. as an intelligence failure. He doesn’t say...”
– Book Review - Decision Points - By George W. Bush - NYTimes.com
“Which brings us to Iraq. Bush admits to just two errors in prosecuting that war....”
– No shit
Book Review - Decision Points - By George W. Bush - NYTimes.com
“Doubts arise about the depth of Bush’s principles in part because he so often...”
– Book Review - Decision Points - By George W. Bush - NYTimes.com
“Thirteen years later, after he had made a quick fortune buying and selling a...”
– Book Review - Decision Points - By George W. Bush - NYTimes.com
““I prided myself on my ability to make crisp and effective decisions,” Bush...”
– It’s impossible to read this without Will Ferrell voice
Book Review - Decision Points - By George W. Bush - NYTimes.com
“Bush concludes: “Terrorists had interpreted our lack of a serious response as a...”
– Book Review - Decision Points - By George W. Bush - NYTimes.com
“Although he never says so, Bush clearly resents the widespread suspicion that...”
– Book Review - Decision Points - By George W. Bush - NYTimes.com
“I’m frustrated that the standard response to every criticism of Agile is that...”
– Terse Systems : Where Pair Programming Fails For Me
“It may be heresy to conservatives, but a trip down memory lane shows nearly all...”
– Green skeletons lurk in GOP closets - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.com
“it turns out that cities and companies differ in a very fundamental regard:...”
– A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation - NYTimes.com
“One of my favorite compliments is when people come up to me and say, ‘You have...”
– A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation - NYTimes.com
“Why, then, do we put up with the indignities of the city? Why do we accept the...”
– A Physicist Turns the City Into an Equation - NYTimes.com