Miniver Cheevy

It will lead you to enlightenment. .... Bearing in his right paw the Shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances; cuts the roots o...

Occasionally I encounter someone who has become enamored of the insights of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. So I have to hunt ...

A friend on Facebook just pointed me to the terrific post The Art of No at CaptainAwkward.com, talking about manners and ethics while da...

The talk “Growing a Language” by Guy Steele says a good thing that you may want to know about programming languages. Even if you do not kno...

This week I have felt a vague sense of guilt that I planned my weekend such that I won't attend the San Francisco Pride parade today. ...

I keep telling people to watch the HBO series The Wire , and it occurs to me that I should have my pitch somewhere handy. Here's the ...

A refined version of this post appears together with several other comments on my Game Of Thrones master post . Laurie Penny's a...

Want to buy me a present? Of course you do. The ideal gift for me is cufflinks or a big scarf or a colorful pocket square ; fun, deca...

I just stumbled across a Digby article from 2005 about the psychosexual underpinnings of conservative chickenhawks' enthusiasm for the...

What Chris Bertram said . Ganked entire from Crooked Timber: I’ve been reading some of Glenn Greenwald’s recent posts with increasing ...

The pamphlet Who Is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-optation has been circulating in Occupy Oaklan...

Black Widow asks: Loki? The “trickster god”? Who tricked who?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is better than The Wire , according to a man who should know: David Simon, the creator of The Wire . We th...

So this plan to swiftboat Obama in the 2012 election was just found and published by the New York Times . In the words of Jeremiah W...

Skeptical Science offers an index of answers to common arguments by global warming deniers.

Imagine my total lack of surprise at learning that the Bush administration apparently never debated the Iraq war, they just bulled their...

This is an update to the diagram from my old article about product development roles. Engineering, design, marketing, and executive lea...

The clock's ticking before Avengers comes out. With my skills in Advanced Jossology, I have been trying to predict how the movie is go...

In the Torah we are told that Ha'Shem spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai. One day the wisest rabbis discussed what Ha’Shem must have said....

Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin ...

In case you're not getting enough of this sort of thing from the Warren Ellis blog, Atlas Obscura is a blog of weird places you can a...

I do not believe, as many do, that the wealth of the world is unambiguously divided into the product of individuals' efforts. The eco...

I'll be doing a few things differently for Passover this year, including a major re-edit of my homemade Hagaddah to include a lot mor...

Via Digby, in a long and fascinating article that details the unfolding dystopian nightmare of Florida under Republican dominance, a litt...

Criticism: disconcerting mortifying tempting vexing that ain't right shenanigans X is corrosive of Y ...

I just discovered that there's an index of Harper's Index that goes all the way back to 1984. My favorite thing is when it juxta...

Kevin Underhill at Lowering the Bar tries to joke about the Executive Branch claiming the right to assassinate US citizens. In case you m...

This is a collection of my favorite writing about the fundamentals of American politics from around the web; expanding it slowly has been...