decorabilia

All's quiet around these parts, a little patch of doldrums in an otherwise turbulent universe. Why I'm not blogging muchly: 1. Capi...

Because I am your arbiter of taste. In no particular order. 1. Life on Mars ( the British import ). Snappy humor mixed with non-sappy dram...

Jason Kuznicki on the War on Drugs : Considered as a whole, the War on Drugs is the single worst violation of liberty perpetrated by our gov...

Back when the National Forensic League was considering the use of computers in Debate, I wrote: In a 5-3-1 vote, the Council decided to all...

1. Most of what you know is wrong. 2. Even what's right is only mostly right. 3. Part of the problem is the residue of half-facts and ps...

"It's not that original, but it's only a buck." I haven't decided whether Burger King's winking-but-honest approac...

To the annals of horrific government-sponsored "rapping," we can add the Census Rap : Warning: this blog is not responsible for ea...

How does the mind construct its perception of the passage of time? In some cases, in a nearly tangible way: a condition called time-space s...

In a recent post, blog-neighbor Mark Olson turns the Problem of Evil around. The claim is that theodicy is an intractable problem for the ...

Freud was wrong about just about everything. One thing he got partly right, though: the death drive, most prevalent in middle school studen...

According to Vlatko Vedral (who's been mentioned here before ), the universe is a quantum computer . Over the last two decades, a flouri...

Regarding LD in general, and the jury nullification resolution in particular, a reader writes, Mr. Anderson, Hey there! I had a great teach...

This Monday afternoon found the legislature in special session. Sign things will wrap up quickly: on a warm March day, the Capitol parking ...

The last time I blogged about the nationalization of American education: a year ago, almost exactly . A year ago, it was ratcheting-up-rhet...

Add this to the list of things that make humans exceptional: we are exceptionally bad at probability. Worse than pigeons, in fact.

I pity young folks. Cursed with the most incredible technology, it's no surprise that they are online, or at least plugged in, more tha...

Is the principle of jury nullification a just check on government power ? In an article titled "License to Nullify: The Democratic and ...

The most powerful man in America, at the moment, is a parliamentarian . As Democrats try to salvage health care reform, there is one man who...

Never was so much Rube Goldberg given to so many by so few. [via Scott Tobias. ]

A while back I noted a few legislators' novel idea to raise revenue: ads on public school buses. Today, Slog reports that both such bill...