This just in: #HeForShe and #GamerGate INSANITY currently going on in my twitter feed. Check it out if you dare. It all started with this tweet: To be clear I'm %100 for #HeForShe but the fact that feminism benefits men is a happy accident. I'd TOTALLY be a feminist even if it didn't — bspencer […]
Month: September 2014
Chart from Piketty’s/Saez’s latest data:
Apparently, very far indeed. I’ll also guarantee that if Simmons had used similar language to criticize a player who claimed not to use steroids or something, nobody at the Worldwide Leader woul
It’s Yankee elimination day! And, yet, it is for me a highly sour and unpleasant one, given that the Mariners have somehow managed to get outscored 42-10 — by the Astros and Blue Jays! — in four games with the season on the line. I must note in particular one historic accomplishment. For all the […]
Updated below Most LGM readers are familiar with Leiter’s history of cyber-harassment and sock puppetry, so it should come as no surprise that lots of people in the world of academic philosophy
I was going to put this in one of my linky posts, but, honestly, it’s just so insane I think it’s worthy of its own post. Grace Ann is rewriting “Harry Potter” books because sh
Coq au Vin for din. pic.twitter.com/YPF8CjCXF4 — bspencer (@vacuumslayer) September 22, 2014 The chickens in france… are drunk. @vacuumslayer oh please I hope you share your recipe. — otherchuchu (@nongnonghead) September 22, 2014 So here’s my recipe for Chicken Thighs Au Vin. Word of warning: I don’t measure when I cook. As I […]
Somehow, I missed Marchman’s epic assessment of Lanny Davis at the time. Fortunately, it’s still fresh! If you detect a pattern in the two examples here, you’re not wrong. In his shi
When the framers of the Sixth Amendment declared that “the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial,” they knew what they were doing. But if nobody is willing to enforce
Caldwell Jones has died. Jones was not a great NBA player, but he was an excellent defensive and rebounding center on the 76ers and, more importantly to me, the Trail Blazers teams of the late 80s. For some reason, I still remember watching a Blazers game as a teenager and getting very excited as the […]
Suggestion: On the September 22 edition of his show, O’Reilly claimed that the only credible plan to defeat the Islamic State had to include a mercenary force of 25,000 “English-speaking&#
So, as noted yesterday, I went on Graphic Policy Radio and discussed the series of premier of Gotham, which you can listen to here: The more serious discussion concerned how a show whose conclusion is