Rany Jazayerli: The GOP And Me. “Look, I don’t want to be a party-line voter. It does Muslims no good to be identified with a single political party – we run the risk of being taken advantage of by the Democratic Party, while having our needs completely ignored by the Republicans. And I look forward […]
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Blog: Brain Pickings: The Beatles Perform Shakespeare in Color, 1964
2012.11.06 – 09:08
The Beatles Perform Shakespeare in Color, 1964 Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
Sabermetric Research: Arguments vs. studies
2012.11.05 – 11:26
Sabermetric Research: Arguments vs. studies “In social science, the best arguments prove more than the best studies. Hands down.”
Worse Than You Ever Imagined
2012.11.05 – 11:05
Worse Than You Ever Imagined 36 million unnatural deaths in China from 1958-62. That’s a World War scale of magnitude, and we barely ever hear of it.
Blog: Barking Up The Wrong Tree: Can one personality trait determine your future?
2012.11.05 – 09:25
Can one personality trait determine your future? Eric Barker, Barking Up The Wrong Tree
Purifying Our Political Culture
2012.11.05 – 08:53
Purifying Our Political Culture “Robespierre, who did more than anyone else to bring about the king’s execution, sat in that house with the windows closed, unwilling to look upon the result of his work (he was squeamish). Later, when he had arranged for Danton, once his dear friend and fellow Jacobin, to go to the […]
Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: Pinker On Left/Right Clash
2012.11.05 – 08:08
Pinker On Left/Right Clash Rod Dreher, The American Conservative » Rod Dreher
State of the Species
2012.11.04 – 22:38
State of the Species “Margulis was no apologist for unthinking destruction. Still, she couldn’t help regarding conservationists’ preoccupation with the fate of birds, mammals, and plants as evidence of their ignorance about the greatest source of evolutionary creativity: the microworld of bacteria, fungi, and protists. More than 90 percent of the living matter on earth […]
Blog: Adventures in Capitalism: bukowski on writing
2012.11.04 – 16:45
bukowski on writing Chris, Adventures in Capitalism
Blog: Wired Science: Asteroid Belts Could Be Key to Finding Alien Life
2012.11.04 – 10:22
Asteroid Belts Could Be Key to Finding Alien Life Wired UK, Wired Science
Blog: Barking Up The Wrong Tree: Do Starbucks employees have more emotional intelligence than your doctor?
2012.11.04 – 01:09
Do Starbucks employees have more emotional intelligence than your doctor? Eric Barker, Barking Up The Wrong Tree
Stop Procrastinating By ‘Clearing To Neutral’
2012.11.04 – 01:04
Stop Procrastinating By ‘Clearing To Neutral’ CTN is a POST-activity habit. AFTER you have done your main activity, do your post-activity work (clear to neutral). This means you set everything up so it is ready for the next time.
Blog: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: Write For Purpose, Not People
2012.11.03 – 12:17
Write For Purpose, Not People Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Blog: Dan Ariely: How to Stop Illegal Downloads
2012.11.03 – 10:17
How to Stop Illegal Downloads danariely, Dan Ariely
Blog: The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: Vote Republican Or The Economy Gets It
2012.11.02 – 16:28
Vote Republican Or The Economy Gets It Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Blog: Marginal Revolution: A Bet is a Tax on Bullshit
2012.11.02 – 10:28
A Bet is a Tax on Bullshit Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution
Religion and football have been butting heads lately
2012.11.01 – 18:53
Religion and football have been butting heads lately “It’s the borderline between “values” and “religious values” that becomes ill-defined, socially and constitutionally, when a Christian message among Christian families becomes a Christian message at a public function.”
Flag on the play
2012.11.01 – 18:37
Flag on the play “There is a reason why the hardest news in sports—stories of concussions, doping scandals, the involvement of teams in the transnational workings of dirty capital—not only isn’t broken by star columnists, but is rarely seriously addressed by them.”
Joy Williams on Why Writers Write
2012.11.01 – 09:35
Joy Williams on Why Writers Write “A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings.”