On the Ramparts!

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I, for one, am glad that some doctors out there are brave enough to hold back the tide of "black lung" addled coal miners/parasites who are threatening the profitability of our coal companies and our insurance companies: After working underground in the coal mines of southern...

Toxic Tokenism

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If you accuse a woman who's also a misogynist that she enjoys the attention and validation she gets from male misogynists, you're bound to be accused of misogyny yourself. It's.

Thursday Links

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For your Thursday morning coffee drinking pleasure: Great longread on Air France 447 and the future of commercial aviation. On the origins of camoflauge. Alyssa Rosenberg on the next phase of the culture wars. Bill Sweetman on Russian and Chinese bomber projects. I'd give 5-1 against...

Thanks. Also, Music

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It's a bit difficult to come back to active blogging after the fundraising campaign for my stolen computers and--far, far worse--the lost documents for my book. At least I had submitted the thing already so even if I have significant revisions, it's not like I have...

Against Devolution

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[caption id="attachment_63046" align="aligncenter" width="350"] Some 2004 nostalgia for you today.[/caption] One of the earliest blog posts I ever wrote was a response to (not entirely serious) calls from the left.

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