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I’ve got money stacks bigger than you

Matt Cutts asked which charities people donate to. Here’s my list: * The Institute for Justice gets the first check I write every year. I gripe a lot about the effectiveness of advocacy. I don’t think voting, endorsing incumbent politicians or marching with signs do anything to relieve the boot on people’s throats. That’s why [...]

appetite for destruction but I scrape the plate

The latest in a series of harmless things that offend me: the new Taco Bell Beefy Crunchy Burrito. If you can’t see the YouTube embed, or if you can’t stand the suspense: it’s a burrito topped with Fritos. At first this embarrassed me. What does it say of the paucity of the American dining experience [...]

somebody called you, but you cannot hear

Light posting this week, and mostly meta. The top posts this week, in terms of directing traffic to this site, were: * My review of Scott Pilgirm vs The World, which I titled with the opening lyric of a catchy song from the movie and got a lot of Google traffic that way; * My [...]

o come all ye faithful

My Christmas gift to you: some of the blogs I like to read. Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Droll recaps of news headlines, Presidential press conferences and other items of world import. Also features the “Today -100″ segment, which offers commentary on what was happening a century ago today as reported by the New [...]

bellum omnia contra zombies

First up, I’ve got a new post on Overthinking It, interpreting the first season of The Walking Dead in light of social contract theory: Locke’s social contract, and Shane’s, hinges on reason. People emerge from the state of nature because, as rational creatures, they see a value to it. An established tradition of how to [...]

twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift

I haven’t entirely given up on my libertarian past, but years in Boston have definitely dragged me further left. Getting out of school has helped, too. I’d be hard pressed to say when exactly I crossed the line from “conservative libertarian” to, well, wherever I am now. The PATRIOT Act and the gradual Sovietization of [...]

told you I’ll be here forever

Her Red Umbrella: A high energy bedroom farce that benefits from excellent casting. Her Red Umbrella follows five Harvard students on a tour of Europe, studying Romantic literature and learning more about themselves. One of them is a dorky archaeology student who’s always dreamed of traveling abroad. One’s a TA with a reputation for being [...]

50 books: 2010

I made it! Sorta. Best Science Fiction / Fantasy Nominees: House of Leaves; The Book of the New Sun; Singularity Sky; The Name of the Wind; A Princess of Mars; Across the Nightingale Floor; House of Leaves Winner: The Book of the New Sun Not even close. I have plenty of good things to say [...]

I fell for you like a child

A few weeks ago, my XBox 360 sprouted three red rings on its power light. A quick Google unearthed some potential fixes that didn’t involve deliberately overheating a three hundred dollar piece of hardware: unplug the power cord from the XBox, then from its transformer, then from the wall, then plug them all back in [...]

come back here and bring me my daughter

The sales reps took us out to dinner last week at [redacted]. It’s a charming restaurant, in the style of a dinner club you’d expect from the ’20s. I imagine it does a great business with the Bingo-and-Jameson circuit. On a Thursday night at half past eight, with a thirty-degree wind whipping off the water, [...]

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