your price of gas open friday thread

by liberal japonicus Over here, I don't think much about the price of gas. No really critical uses of the car, and gas is sold in liters. For me, there is some sort obsfucation constant that is added whenever you translate something from imperial to metric. "It's 39 degrees celsius" and I yawn. 'It's 103 … Read more

Cue the HUZZAHS! and the urine tests

by Doctor Science It is an exciting week Chez Science, because Sprog the Elder is about to start a FULL TIME JOB. WITH BENEFITS. IN HER CHOSEN FIELD. (Said field being “library and book work”. Because “best-selling novelist” isn’t something a sensible person *counts* on …) It’s taken almost a year and half of temporary … Read more

anti and pro military on the left (retry)

by liberal japonicus

This weekend, I was watching the internet thru my new iphone, which was a bit like taking in a baseball game thru a knothole in the fence. You can catch the basic action, but you don’t see the whole game.

So it was with the second campaign of the CT-LGM blog war*. The first, which could be termed The battle of Conor’s bluff, was part of a larger war and centered around whether one should vote for Obama despite the use of drones or make a statement and vote for Gary Johnson.
The second campaign, The fight of Navy’s need, took place over the weekend. (I hope those attempts at factual restatements don’t insult anyone on either side) In both campaigns, some current and former ObWi commenters were part of the troops arrayed. This post is not about either of those fights (so I’m not linking to them, though going to CT and LGM should be sufficient) but about what I think is the larger question behind them. If that intrigues, check below the fold.

*I should add that whether or not is was a ‘war’ is questioned by some of the participants.

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A master debater

By liberal japonicus The title is a hangover from the detour into Portnoy’s complaint. I didn’t see it and I’m now at a a retreat with students. I caught a small bit of one commentator saying that Romnet behaved like an alpha male and that this might hurt him. Given the amount of testosterone that … Read more

A different green

by Doctor Science In every wood in every spring there is a different green. — J.R.R.Tolkien This is a section of a picture I took last week on my morning walk: I used an Olympus D-510 camera, which is really pretty old at this point. What I was hoping to capture here were the many … Read more