amor mundi

When Ezra Klein wears his spectacles on the tee vee he looks a bit like Emma Goldman. One wishes he sounded a bit more like her. (I keed! I ...

Over at Salon, Alex Pareene points out that across the spectrum America's narcissism taints Egypt coverage .

Uninformed cheerleading at foreign insurrections seems to me exactly as unseemly as uninformed cheerleading at foreign invasions.

...since Congress holds the purse strings.

What could possibly go wrong?

If you look, let us say, at educational outcomes, levels of poverty, incarceration rates for people of color in the United States either you...

More clippings from the cutting room floor. In any sufficiently complex and spatially disseminated functional division of labor such that th...

Believe it or not, this post is from the cutting room floor, paragraphs I snipped from a longer post I am still working on but decided were ...

You will not go far wrong simply to treat pop futurology as a fandom of dupes doing unpaid crowdsourced marketing and promotional work for v...

As it happens, I do not disapprove of the contemplation of releasing various amounts of sulphur into various regions of the atmosphere under...

Something like the belief that the universe is not just susceptible of consequential description but also has -- and even somehow indicates,...

In response to my complaints about ever louder, ever more frequent, ever more hysterical advertising content on television, one rather sanct...

I am sometimes amused at the thought that when the petro-bubble that has for so long been mistaken for the Triumphal Ascendancy Unto Infinit...

The throwaway comment on Krugman in the last post has reminded me of something I've been meaning to riff on for a long time, a point tha...

Is it just me or does the new digital tee vee endlessly black out and skitter and pixillate, making it incomparably worse than the prevailin...

Superlative Futurologists interminably -- and I would say definitively -- find themselves (usually himselves) in the curious argumentative/...

Upgraded and adapted from the Moot: [T]he US has a population density that makes GOOD public transportation economically impractical. Yes, t...

It's time once more to visit the Very Serious techno-"progressive" futurologists at the stealth Robot Cult outfit IEET , the ...

Upgraded and Adapted from the Moot : I happen to believe that there is no such thing as a life-long winning streak, and that only a negligib...

It's time once more to visit the Very Serious techno-"progressive" futurologists at the stealth Robot Cult outfit IEET , the ...