"This was the voice of moderation until 13 Sept, 2025"
by liberal japonicus Earlier, I wrote about the case of John Updike's trash and the person who went through it. From that Moran told me he checked into the legality of what he was doing in the years he collected Updike’s garbage. He also asked friends for guidance about the ethics of his actions. It … Read more
by Ugh So, it seems the United States has embarked on yet another campaign of floggings for love in the Middle East, or as Glenn Greenwald, winner of this week's "trolling of the internets" headline award* put it "Syria Becomes the 7th Predominantly Muslim Country Bombed by 2009 Nobel Peace Laureate." It also seems that the United … Read more
by liberal japonicus
I'm back from 10 days in Kyrgyzstan, classes are about to start and there are too many interesting things to write about. ISIS? Scottish referendum? Ebola?
But this piece responding to Charles Barkley's comments about the Adrian Peterson case had me thinking about growing up, discipline and a whole range of stuff. More below the fold
by Ugh I'm leaning Kafka, but could be convinced otherwise, or why not both? The Justice Department intervened late Friday in a defamation lawsuit against United Against Nuclear Iran, a prominent advocacy group that pushes for tough sanctions against Tehran. The government said the case should be dropped because forcing the group to open … Read more
by Doctor Science I’ve been binge-watching Brooklyn Nine Nine as I sort through papers, including paying the bills for my husband’s double knee replacement. This is how broken the American health system is: surgeon’s bill: $8500 per knee, total $17K. After the “negotiated discount adjustment” from the insurance company, the bill was … $3700. That’s … Read more
by Doctor Science In his July Wired article about the history of autocorrect, Gideon Lewis-Kraus writes: A commenter on the Language Log blog recently mentioned hearing of an entire dialect in Asia based on phone cupertinos, where teens used the first suggestion from autocomplete instead of their chosen word, thus creating a slang that others … Read more
from Slartibartifast, found in a hermetically sealed tupperware container It has been very difficult for me to remain in touch, respond to runaway italics and the like. We have recently moved out in the sticks, and one of the bonus features of being out in the sticks is that internet may or may not be … Read more
by Ugh So the latest and greatest tax news in the popular press (MSM, if you must) is about corporate inversions where a U.S. parented company becomes a non-U.S. parented company via a merger with a non-U.S. company (often significantly smaller than the U.S. company, but not always), thus escaping large amounts of the "contributing … Read more
by Doctor Science In honor of Labor Day, Steven Greenhouse of the NY Times wrote about how more workers are claiming wage theft: a flood of recent cases — brought in California and across the nation — that accuse employers of violating minimum wage and overtime laws, erasing work hours and wrongfully taking employees’ tips. … Read more
by liberal japonicus Been seeing a lot of articles about the stolen nude photos, (here is the google realtime newsfeed) and, as it usually happens, a bit of serendipity in seeing this New Yorker article. This is not to suggest that John Updike's trash are nude photos of celebs, but juxtaposing the two stories is interesting. … Read more