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In an amazing interview at the Washington Post Wonkblog, Mark A. R. Kleiman succinctly delivers a lot of truth and clear thinking about...

Why did we invade Iraq? For oil? Then where's the oil? Greg Palast has a different theory. He thinks it was to stop oil from flo...

Artist Michael Lee Lunsford has an interesting little project: Fully Dressed Redesigns of Superheroines . This hits me right where I live...

Mark Manson writing at Postmasculine gives us The Rise And Fall of Ken Wilber , a frustrated critique of Wilber's thought and the Int...

There's a blog post from the LayerVault folks making the rounds among interaction designers. It's about what they call “progressi...

Via a chilling post by Corey Robin at Jacobin, I find Dan Savage (yes, that Dan Savage) telling us to Say “ YES ” to War on Iraq”. ...

Pagan teacher Ivo Dominguez, Jr. tells a story about doing a brief, impromptu public ritual. I then proceeded with calling of the fou...

Vruba at Tupperwolf's little blog post Wealth, risk, and stuff points to something that has always been present in my What If I Were...

Ta-Neisi Coates at The Atlantic makes a number of good little observations in his blog post How The Quiet Car Explains The World . He...

Much political and cultural weight rests on the pillar of the reading that the Christian Bible condemns abortion. Fred Clark of Slackt...

I've long been cranky about the politics of Social Security—Generation X folks like me look like we're gonna get screwed. But par...

Conservative-ish newsweekly The Economist offers an overview of Generally Agreed Upon Macroeconomic Policy Truths. BECAUSE it is alw...

A lively talk delivering a critique of capitalism from Richard Wolff. It probably doesn't say anything you don't already know, b...

I love this little snippet of dialogue from David Mamet's movie about con artists House of Games . The basic idea is this. It...

You have most likely heard of Godwin's Law. I developed Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies: As an online discussion grows longer,...

The interesting article in Good, A Truly Godless Place: Why We Designed a Temple for Atheists , brought to mind the temple which Howard R...

Via Dan Saffer I learn that Leisa Reichelt at Disambiguity has a crackerjack post, Design Is The Easy Part, about organizations' fa...

Apropos of the ambivalence I expressed at the end of the previous post, I found a Metafilter post by flex about privilege checking and th...

I was at the “Pagans and Privilege” panel discussion at PantheaCon this year. Pagan Newswire Collective Minnesota has a good article on ...

Gus DiZerega has a long post Capitalism vs. the Market which lays out a point that I've been semiconscious of myself for some time. ...

There's a line of movement conservative propaganda which blames not the financial industry for the mortgage lending crisis which trig...

Via io9, I learn Timothy Leary's bizarre comic book essay Neurocomics is available on Flickr. For future reference.

Ezra Klein at the Washington Post demonstrates that President Obama is willing to compromise, is willing to lead, is willing to make an...

Maddy Myers' long post Harassment in nerd spaces, and encouraging honesty: “The fighting [video game] community is so welcoming,”...

Chris Dahlen at Unwinnable informs us that Lego's Heroica games are designed to be hackable. First you need to assemble the board...

Digby at Hullaballoo, inspired by discussion of Oliver Stone's Untold History series, asks when can we end the empire? I've ...

Our society is insane. The surgeons there said that he was sure to die if they did not intervene, and that they should schedule a sur...

I'm just going to leave this here, okay?

Digby at Hullaballoo has a particularly excellent long post Guess which “extreme” the public agrees with? about the politics of “deficit...

Cracked, which has quietly been staking out a space for itself as a home for critical-thinking-based humor, has a little guide to 5 Easy ...