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Entries from April 2007

My First Vlog

April 2nd, 2007 · 8 Comments

Verbal Hyperlinks: “Matt Yglesias’ little brother” — “BloggingHeads.TV” — “natural language” Addendum: Ech. Another argument against vlogging: I don’t have professional makeup and lighting people on hand.

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Tags: Journalism & the Media

A Collective Action Problem

April 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

Via Ann at Feministing comes this article on Canadian research on the (apparently growing?) phenomenon of young women being pressured to share racy images of themselves online. Presumably these are intended for private viewing, but often end up circulating on the Internet. Obviously, this is incredibly sleazy behavior and a criminal breach of trust. But […]

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Tags: Tech and Tech Policy

This Is My Body… and It’s DELICIOUS

April 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

The recent flap over Choco-Jesus is stranger than the usual case of this type, since it seems that the usual outrage professionals have worked themselves into the requisite dudgeon without even having a clear sense of why they’re supposed to be offended. Bill “The Jews Run Hollywood” Donohue blusters: This is one of the worst […]

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Tags: Religion

Step 1: Identify Fallacy. Step 2: Commit Fallacy.

April 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Step 1: Identify Fallacy. Step 2: Commit Fallacy.

Last week, Maggie Gallagher had been urging me to have a look at this Weekly Standard piece by David Blankenhorn, which is the latest attempt to persuade us that giving more people access to marriage will destroy marriage. Fortunately, I don’t have to do much here, since Dale Carpenter has taken it apart rather more […]

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Tags: Sexual Politics