Last year I read this article about the many standard devices that are combined into a smartphone, and I considered getting one. As I shopped around, though, a scary fact slapped me–while the initial cost of a phone could be reckoned with, the monthly fees would be impossible. Articles such as here, here, and here [...]
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Where Did All Your New Money Come From?
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged budget, cultural criticism, money, smartphone on February 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Libertarian Internet: Wikipedia, Craigslist, and Ebay
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged Craigslist, Ebay, freedom, Internet, libertarian, Wikipedia on February 11, 2012 | 8 Comments »
The recent kerfuffle over SOPA got me thinking again about how relatively free the Internet is–not in terms of cost, but as a beacon of freedom. Consider three of the online world’s greatest success stories, Wikipedia, Craigslist, and Ebay. Each exists with minimal interference by the managing authority–those who run each site merely set up [...]
The Simpsons and the Nevada GOP Caucus
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged caucus, Nevada, Republican party, The Simpsons on February 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In a classic fifth season episode of The Simpsons, we see brief glimpses of conventions held by the two major political parties. The Republican convention is a scene of unmitigated evil. The Democratic convention is shown as a bunch of goofy losers who can’t do anything right. If those stereotypes held true, then Nevada’s Republican [...]
The Psychology of Politics
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged Chronicle of Higher Education, conservatives, liberalism, psychology on February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Fascinating article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about a renegade psychologist whose work illuminates the hidden mental, social, and moral motives behind our political values. It’s all enlightening, but some of it goes against the grain. He’s a self-described moderate, atheist, Obama supporter, but his findings suggest that it’s American liberals who have the [...]
Ron Paul Protest Vote in Nevada Caucus?
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged caucus, Mitt Romney, Nevada, Ron Paul on February 1, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The Nevada GOP caucus is Saturday. Here’s an idea I’ve been toying with: Mitt Romney will win. It won’t even be close–he won 51% of the vote here in the 2008 caucus. Like a lot of conservatives, I’m a little torn between Romney and Paul. But since it’s a sure thing that Romney will win [...]
What the Left and Right Both Get Right
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged conservative, liberalism, New York Times on January 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A pair of recent New York Times features asked political thinkers on both sides of the aisle what the other side gets right. The columns are each fascinating: I enjoyed the recognition of key conservative principles in “What the Right Gets Right,” and I can easily agree with most of “What the Left Gets Right.” [...]
A Case Study in Lazy Political Complacency
Posted in Politics and Society on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My last post a few minutes ago was about an essay at the wonderful education blog Brainstorm. However, one author there is so insufferably, pedantically narrow minded, she doesn’t even make me upset, just bored. In a recent post, she bemoans the fact that the current GOP campaign has not yet produced a critical witticism [...]
The Global Genocide of Baby Girls
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged abortion, family, genocide on January 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
All abortions are not created equal. The numbers are chilling: around the world, babies prenatally identified as female are far, far more likely to be aborted than male babies. This has resulted in many major societies now having a huge imbalance in genders: there are way too many young men and not nearly enough young [...]
Occupy Camelot
Posted in Humor, Politics and Society, tagged Monty Python, Occupy Wall Street on January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Ron Paul Dream
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged Ron Paul on December 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last week I had a dream about Ron Paul. In my dream, I was at some kind of convention or rally, and people got to go up to a table and meet Ron Paul. When it was my turn, I said something like this: “Like a lot of conservatives, I’ve had misgivings about your foreign [...]
Diplomatic Dialogue Has To Start Somewhere…
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged economics, Occupy Wall Street, Peter Schiff, reason on December 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Below, libertarian economic expert Peter Schiff talks to Occupy protesters. Some of these protesters are confused, barely literate brats riding a bandwagon, but a few of them are clearly very serious, mature, intelligent people. Unfortunately, a video like this has to operate in sound bites, and I wish the forum had been a quiet table [...]
Two Sides of the Same Coin
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged City Journal, economics, Occupy Wall Street on December 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Cute and clever video via City Journal points out the similar problems on both sides of the economic debate.
Irrational Anti-Christian Hatred Is Real
Posted in Politics and Society, tagged anti-Christian, anti-Mormon, cultural criticism, Dustin Lance Black, gay marriage, LDS Church, NPR, terrorism, tolerance on December 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Last month, my college classes had an assignment to write a problem/solution essay. Being young adults, almost all of them wrote from a politically liberal perspective. Now, some of those papers were clever, articulate, and well-written, even if I personally disagreed with their premises and conclusions. But not many of them. Many of them were angry, [...]
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