I meant to blog a couple of weeks ago about an excellent band I saw at a small local venue—The Advantage. Their hook is that they exclusively play covers of old 8-Bit Nintendo game songs. (The NES Advantage, recall, was an old-school Nintendo joystick.) It sounds like a gimmick or a novelty act, but they […]

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A look at the new spending bill, “De Omnibus Disputandum.”

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Years ago, the brilliant Terry Gilliam, responsible for Brazil, 12 Monkeys, and various other phenomenal films, was tapped to do a movie adaptation of Alan Moore’s seminal Watchmen. Didn’t work out—in part because he wanted to make it 12 hours long. C’est la vie. More recently, fans of the graphic novel were excited to learn […]

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Now, why aren’t contemporary American children’s shows more like this?

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Welcome the incomparable, ineffable, inflammable Lane McFadden back to the blogosphere.

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Via Crooked Timber, I see that eminent sociologist Otis Dudley Duncan, who among other things was responsibile for launching that whole crazy John Lott investigation, has died.

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First, an emphatic nod to Radley Balko that it’s a bit odd to tar as “unserious” about foreign policy analysts who seem to have had a more accurate view of what the consequences of invading Iraq would be than their opponents. While that is, I think, more important than whether the view in question has […]

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An interesting post over at The Volokh Conspiracy considers one reader’s comments on the place of religion in public deliberation: Personally I hold the position that it’s illegitimate (from an ethical, not a constitutional standpoint) to justify one’s decisions about how society should be run based on assumptions one cannot defend reasonably. As I have […]

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From Ryan Sager, on “the future of libertarianism,” we get: The main problem with libertarians right now, frankly, is their inability to have anything serious to say regarding foreign policy. Pacifism combined with isolationism, as preached more or less by many at Cato and Reason is neither the popular nor the correct answer to the […]

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My usual take is on free will is that it’s an illusion, but that it also doesn’t much matter, because (contrary to the belief of its most ardent defenders—which belief is really the only reason anyone would try to defend it) it doesn’t make much real difference in terms of moral practice, the assessment of […]

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