There’s already some heavy kvetching in effect about a new Denton-property called Kinja, a topical blog-post aggregator. The main bitch is this: Just another “portal” where the unseen, all-knowing “editors” decide what is good for you to read? … Blogs of note? And who the hell is deciding who meets that standard? Even more important, […]

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I’ve enjoyed my time at Reason a great deal, but as some Hit and Run commenters long suspected, I’ve been in negotiations with Katrina vanden Heuvel for a while now and am looking forward to starting the new job I’ve just accepted. Beginning next week, I’ll be doing my writing here. UPDATE: A somewhat unsettling […]

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Neal Pollack returns.

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So, there’s probably a blindingly obvious answer to this question, but I was kicking it around with a couple of fairly sharp folks at the Guatemala conference earlier this month and, while we came up with a few possible answers, none seemed obviously right. I’d forgotten about it soon after, but it just came up […]

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You can now listen to the Kojo Nnamdi debate here (Real Player). I’m actually fairly unhappy with that performance now that I listen to it. There’s a whole lot of stuff I’d intended to say—some of it more important than what I did get out—that I didn’t get around to, which is just bad time […]

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The Agitator offers a hypothetical exchange between two gay marriage supporters who know that only legal disapproval of homosexuality prevents us all from surrendering to our inner need for hot man love.

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I’ll be on the Kojo Nnamdi show from 12 to 1 Wednesday afternoon talking about Ban the Ban and the evil proposed ballot initiative to outlaw smoking in bars.

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Roommate Chuck informed me today that the new Starbucks on the corner of 13th and U—the presence of which I’ll confess I greeted with some glee, since I can now get good coffee beans without trucking over to Whole Foods—is owned by Magic Johnson, part of his practice of investing to “give back to the […]

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Interesting New York Times Magazine piece this week on how the government assigns monetary values to “statistical lives” saved by various policies, a subject I’ve written on for Reason. Some of the author’s suggestions seem not particularly useful. For instance: To say that a human life is ”priceless” does not necessarily mean that it is […]

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Jesse Walker just passed this bottom-ten-worst-album-covers list along, and all I can say is, don’t click through at work… I just spent about 10 minute howling like a loon; I assume my housemates think I’ve lost it.

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