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Miniver Cheevy: Malcolm Gladwell
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Some things I think are interesting. I love the ketchup article. As much as the next designer,. But Malcolm Gladwell is poison. Actively disinterested in the truth. An interesting article but murkiness quotient near 100%. If it is a learned taste a better product sells. If it is a comfort food dont bother. PB&J on white will always work. Wed Mar 04, 09:10:00 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. LiveJournal feed of this blog. The San Francisco tech boom crisis.
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Miniver Cheevy: Why “Miniver Cheevy”?
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Some things I think are interesting. Why “Miniver Cheevy”? Ldquo;Miniver Cheevy” is the title of a semi-autobiographical poem by Edward Arlington Robinson. I first read the poem, and took a liking to it, in high school. The image of the suffering romantic poet spoke to my adolescent sensibilities. Around the same time, I joined a BBS: direct dialup to a computer in someone's basement. (Oh yeah, I'm online old skool: I remember when FidoNet. Was cutting edge.). Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn. He would hav...
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Miniver Cheevy: Greece & the EU
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Some things I think are interesting. Greece and the EU. So I've been trying to get up to speed on what's really happening with Greece and the EU. My man Paul Krugman says:. The European project — a project I have always praised and supported — has just been dealt a terrible, perhaps fatal blow. And whatever you think of Syriza, or Greece, it wasn’t the Greeks who did it. My favorite article so far about the situation is from Interfluidity. And they're offering a “helping” hand in order to fur...Greek jou...
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Miniver Cheevy: Jane Austen's The Terminator
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Some things I think are interesting. Jane Austen's The Terminator. This may be my favorite literary mashup, and since the text is getting to be linkrotted away, I'm hosting it here. Patience felt the echoes of those last words pass through her as though they had, themselves, been fired from a pistol. She noted how very odd it was that she was turning towards Mr. Terminus to hear his reply, as though this were a simple conversation of the weather and doings about town. “Mr. Terminus? Subscribe to: Post Co...
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Miniver Cheevy: Weren't the Nazis National Socialists, and therefore leftists?
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Some things I think are interesting. Weren't the Nazis National Socialists, and therefore leftists? Over at Crooked Timber, a useful long post by John Holbo Were The Nazis Right-Wing? 8211; or – Weimar Culture: The Insider As Outsider. Explains that yes, the Nazis really were a movement of the right, despite the confusing name. Since this is Crooked Timber, for once it's actually. To read the comments. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. LiveJournal feed of this blog.
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Miniver Cheevy: Pentagram of the Good Life
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Some things I think are interesting. Pentagram of the Good Life. This admirable and recondite spell from T. Thorn Coyle can be cast whenever friends gather. Tradition calls for all present to raise a glass of spirits while joyfully intoning the names of the Five Points in call-and-response, then sealing the spell with a sip of the spirits. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. LiveJournal feed of this blog. The San Francisco tech boom crisis. Sarah Palin, doubleplusgood duckspeaker.
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Miniver Cheevy: Local government often sucks
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Some things I think are interesting. Local government often sucks. I've been meaning to write something about this American political canard for years, and Jonathan Chait has finally done it for me so I don't have to: Why the Worst Governments in America Are Local Governments. The myth of localism is rooted deep in our political psyche. Left and right alike use. As terms of approbation,. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. LiveJournal feed of this blog. Open letter to PantheaCon.
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Miniver Cheevy: Who owns your children?
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Some things I think are interesting. Who owns your children? In the course of a good article about why Republicans seem to be pandering to anti-vaccination people. Over at the Weekly Sift, I was struck by this little quote from Rand Paul:. The state doesn’t own your children. At the risk of over-interpreting a short quote, I see a lot going on in that little comment. What's going on there? Who, other than political science academics, talks like that? In the way he talks about any number of issues. And we...
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Miniver Cheevy: Why I insist that I am a feminist
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Some things I think are interesting. Why I insist that I am a feminist. To explain my commitment to being a proponent of feminism in the face of a number of objections, I need to offer a distinction I make between feminism and what I refer to as “feminist culture”. Can be tricky to define. But it refers to a bundle of political and intellectual approaches to understanding and objecting to injustices faced by women. Feminism is an outlook, a toolkit, a history. The range of things that feminists do. That ...
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Miniver Cheevy: Interventions
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Some things I think are interesting. A long digression from a characteristically. Post at Slate Star Codex, The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories. Which I'd like to keep handy because it's just so great. I’ve made this argument before and gotten a reply something like this:. And then I think of the Hair Dryer Incident. Basically, this one obsessive compulsive woman would drive to work every morning and worry she had left the hair dryer on and it was going to burn down her house....
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