Linking caffeinated beer, Lincraft, Lego, monkey porn, Parisian waiters, bad Yank food ...
What the world needs now is caffeinated beer.
Via leadgend. Lincraft has gone into receivership.
Being clever with Lego™.
Monkeys will pay to see monkey porn. Does this fall into the category of yes we are primates or scientists are sick and twisted?
The rules for getting service from Parisian waiters. (No doubt tyggerjai and bunnikins will be able to tell us all about it when they get back.)
Trying to explain why the US has bad food.
Via philosophyjeff. Abstinence programs are ineffective: students in almost all high school grades were more sexually active after undergoing abstinence education.
Researchers don't believe the programs encouraged teenagers to have sex, only that the abstinence messages did not interfere with customary trends among adolescents.
kenshi has a great post about the joys of parenthood.
Didn’t know that philosopher W V O Quine was a conservative.
A very thoughtful essay about the evolution of the modern left. You can tell it is a by a left thinker, for it completely avoids a fundamental dynamic in the evolution of the left - that socialism doesn’t work. If socialism reliably produced decent societies, if public ownership reliably produced effective and dynamic firms, the history of the last 50 years would have been very different. (If the politburos of the Chinese and Vietnamese Communist Parties have noticed, you wouldn’t think it too much for other people to do so.)
A piece critiquing Martin Wolf’s take on globalisation from a social democratic perspective. The author misrepresents Wolf’s position (one reason people like myself sneer when we see the term ‘neoliberal’ is that misrepresentation of the views of economic liberals usually follows immediately) and fails to grapple with the problem for his own agenda that Wolf zeroes in on: the problem in many places is having an effective state at all. It also reads as something of an attempt to preserve some ground of difference for social democracy from a broad liberalism - difficult, since the history of social democracy is the history of the retreat of its socialist component (a consequence of the problem that socialism doesn’t work).
Via anemone. Choosing distinctively Black names for your children is a sign of lower socio-economic status (pdf file), but not a causal factor in later life chances. It makes sense, and there is a lot of evidence, that those with less status tend to seek ways to buttress their sense of identity. Is "Islamophobia" a convenient figleaf for power plays?
Crikey! has been sold. Given that the purchasers were the people behind the ill-fated Eye, I predict another collapse into uncommercial ideological conformity. Speaking of which, The Chaser has folded. (The Age is only kept going by its classifieds. Are predictable views, a desperate need to elevate oneself above the grubby masses and constant implication that anyone who disagrees is a morally retarded moron uncommercial? No, of course not …)
More American conservatives are noticing how Dubya isn’t very.
The US dollar is falling. That probably means interest rates are going to rise.
Via leadgend. Lincraft has gone into receivership.
Being clever with Lego™.
Monkeys will pay to see monkey porn. Does this fall into the category of yes we are primates or scientists are sick and twisted?
The rules for getting service from Parisian waiters. (No doubt tyggerjai and bunnikins will be able to tell us all about it when they get back.)
Trying to explain why the US has bad food.
Via philosophyjeff. Abstinence programs are ineffective: students in almost all high school grades were more sexually active after undergoing abstinence education.
Researchers don't believe the programs encouraged teenagers to have sex, only that the abstinence messages did not interfere with customary trends among adolescents.
kenshi has a great post about the joys of parenthood.
Didn’t know that philosopher W V O Quine was a conservative.
A very thoughtful essay about the evolution of the modern left. You can tell it is a by a left thinker, for it completely avoids a fundamental dynamic in the evolution of the left - that socialism doesn’t work. If socialism reliably produced decent societies, if public ownership reliably produced effective and dynamic firms, the history of the last 50 years would have been very different. (If the politburos of the Chinese and Vietnamese Communist Parties have noticed, you wouldn’t think it too much for other people to do so.)
A piece critiquing Martin Wolf’s take on globalisation from a social democratic perspective. The author misrepresents Wolf’s position (one reason people like myself sneer when we see the term ‘neoliberal’ is that misrepresentation of the views of economic liberals usually follows immediately) and fails to grapple with the problem for his own agenda that Wolf zeroes in on: the problem in many places is having an effective state at all. It also reads as something of an attempt to preserve some ground of difference for social democracy from a broad liberalism - difficult, since the history of social democracy is the history of the retreat of its socialist component (a consequence of the problem that socialism doesn’t work).
Via anemone. Choosing distinctively Black names for your children is a sign of lower socio-economic status (pdf file), but not a causal factor in later life chances. It makes sense, and there is a lot of evidence, that those with less status tend to seek ways to buttress their sense of identity. Is "Islamophobia" a convenient figleaf for power plays?
Crikey! has been sold. Given that the purchasers were the people behind the ill-fated Eye, I predict another collapse into uncommercial ideological conformity. Speaking of which, The Chaser has folded. (The Age is only kept going by its classifieds. Are predictable views, a desperate need to elevate oneself above the grubby masses and constant implication that anyone who disagrees is a morally retarded moron uncommercial? No, of course not …)
More American conservatives are noticing how Dubya isn’t very.
The US dollar is falling. That probably means interest rates are going to rise.