Matt Yglesias had an odd response to my post yesterday calling for American corporations to be held to American labor standards no matter where in the world they site their plants or whether they subcontract the work out. Yglesias said that less safe conditions in poorer countries was OK and in fact helped the people […]
Month: April 2013
Many of you will be familiar with the first Justice Harlan’s response to the bare majority of the Supreme Court’s conclusions that maximum hours laws violated the 14th Amendment: It is pla
I have one thought about this study questioning the value of Advanced Placement testing. I graded AP U.S. History exams for 3 years. The pass rate was about 55% (assuming a 3 is a pass). I would argue
In blogiverse terms, this story is about a relevant as a joke about a semen-stained blue dress. But it broke before Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad and Dad gave me the keys to the Prius (of course it’s a Prius…HELLO: Erik Loomis). So I’m going to talk about it now-deal with it! Anyhoo, […]
This is an interesting essay on the Malick Effect, which can be summed as up people copying Terence Malick by having hands run through grain for effect: That Green was initially able to pull off this
Photoshopping really is the right-wing dog whistler’s favorite tool. A conservative group connected to Colorado’s Secretary of State has been sending political mailers — including a picture
Links to grow on: Ambiguities in Chinese civil-military relations make it hard to read messages. I’m sure you’ve seen the Michael Shannon letter reading, but if you haven’t… Daniel Little on urban marginality. Well, obviously. Updates on the state of African maritime forces. Why do people irrationally hate deficits? Indian complaints about the UN Arms […]
Attewell is brilliant, as per usual; SEK is scattered, as per usual. Enjoy! Us talking about it in the .mp3 of formats for them that prefer such. Our very civilized discussion of the premiere (S03E01)
The Rhode Island Senate has passed a marriage equality bill by a 26-12 vote. Governor Lincoln Chaffee has already come out in support of it. After a long battle played out within the bizarre entity kn
This is a guest post by Steven Attewell, my co-host-who-does-most-of-the-heavy-lifting on our Game of Thrones podcasts, in which he discusses military strategy in a way that Rob’s more fit to comment on than I. It was discussed in both this and last week’s podcasts, so it only makes sense for it to appear here. The […]
Tweet of the day, in response to this: The Mariners seem to be working on the principle that if trying to be good at defense didn’t work they should try to be bad at it. As the team is well on i
Just wanted to post a brief message to let the LGM commentariat know that Akismet is acting wonky today and is putting some of your comments in spam, even if you in no way promised to make my penis bi