I can understand why some feminist bloggers are digging in their heels in the aftermath of the dismissal of charges against the Duke lacrosse players. Obviously, falsely accusing people of rape is a tremendously destructive act, both for its effect on the accused and because it tends to make people more skeptical of genuine victims, […]

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Well, the primary function of this for me was to confirm that I’ve almost entirely lost the debate chops I spend four years building up at NYU, but you can check out Ezra Klein & me on a new episode of BloggingHeads TV discussing American individualism, cost-sharing in healthcare, TSA watchlists, trade & IP, and […]

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This may deserve to become a sort of recurring category: Pundits affecting surprise or bemusement at some putatively contradictory or inconsistent behavior which, given ten seconds thought, isn’t all that surprising or bemuse-worthy at all. Today’s case-in-point: John Podhoretz is just tickled that erstwhile Wonkette Ana Marie Cox, who thinks it’s fine to make frequent […]

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Sully quotes a reader’s reaction to his now-epic running debate with Sam Harris. The gist of it is that atheists are awfully uncomfortable with “mystery” and so keep stubbornly demanding good reasons for things which don’t admit to any sort of deductive proof. The limited extent to which I think there’s something to be said […]

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The Spider-Man star opines: I’ve never been a major smoker, but I think America’s view on weed is ridiculous. I mean, are you kidding me? If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place. Somewhat more interesting is the passing mention of the fact—old news, apparently, but news to me—that Carl Sagan was […]

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Here’s the AP today: High-deductible health insurance plans favored by many employers often wind up being an unfair burden to women, a new study says, largely because women need many routine medical exams that quickly add up. [….] “High-deductible plans punish women for having breasts and uteruses and having babies,” said Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, the […]

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Also, Jonathan Coulton covers the original.

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Tim Lee links an essay on the fretting over the “business model” for music distribution online when so much content is being given away free: This is your worst nightmare. People who can follow their dream on sweat equity. Who with their computer and the money from their day job or mommy and daddy can […]

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Big ups to Tom for pointing me toward Mojiti, which allows you to to all sorts of nifty overlays atop preexisting Web video. Among other things, that enables the functionality I’d pleaded for in the vlog below to provide hyperlinks within a video, much as a textual blog post would have. But what’s actually even […]

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Verbal Hyperlinks “Matt Yglesias’ recent vlog about vlogging” — The March of Time — “D.W. Griffith” — Everything Bad is Good for You — An Inconvenient Truth — “Larry Lessig” — The Wealth of Networks — “clip from Sesame Street” — “podsafe music” UPDATE: Now with internal hyperlinks–watch the top right corner bottom of the […]

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