Hey, I’ve got a letter in the Wall Street Journal this morning, defending drug patents and criticizing Doctors Without Borders (my general attitude is, why go after the usual targets?).
It’s fairly typical of the sorts of arguments made by the group I work for, the American Council on Science and Health. With even a [...]
Drudge linked to a story about a man (a doctor, no less) dressed as Captain America, with a burrito in his pants, being arrested for sexually harassing women at a costume party in Florida (the story was brought to my attention by Dan Raspler, the man who edited the three Justice League stories I wrote [...]
Not surprisingly, some feminists framed this week’s Supreme Court decision allowing states to limit second- and third-trimester partial-birth abortions as an attack on women’s rights. Like a lot of Americans — though not the ones you tend to see arguing about abortion on television, for reasons more aesthetic than political — I’m fairly moderate [...]
Able webmaster Michel Evanchik forwarded me a link to an essay on the DailyKos blog by an atheist professor at Virginia Tech who objects to (the decreasingly intelligent?) Dinesh D’Souza saying atheists have nothing to offer in the way of solace after Monday’s massacre at Virginia Tech. The professor responds with an eloquent description [...]
My home phoneline appears to be out of commission right now, in case anyone out there’s noticed. Faring better than New Orleans so far, though. UPDATE: Fixed, and in any case my problems today seem petty compared to those of Virginia Tech (which, as it appears John McCain would agree, might have been spared [...]
The two leisure-reading books sitting in my desk drawer at work in recent weeks have been Brian Doherty’s This Is Burning Man, about the wild, hippie-esque annual art festival that takes place in the Nevada desert, and Charles Koch’s The Science of Success, about how he turned his family’s oil company into the largest privately-held [...]
I’ve seen at least one article that says the poor box office performance of Grindhouse, which reportedly had a budget of some $70 million but made only $12 million or so its opening weekend, has studio executives looking with great anticipation at films with far smaller budgets but cultish audiences potentially just as large as [...]
Although I kicked the comic-book-collecting habit last year (as noted briefly in an article on Metaphilm.com), I read them for about thirty years, and quitting cold turkey was a bit difficult. Therefore, a sort of comics methadone program was in order, and for the past several months that methadone program has consisted largely of [...]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection of the Month (April 2007):
The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution by Pagan Kennedy
Since I mentioned a couple amputees in my last blog entry, it’s fitting that today I laud a book that’s partly about body modification. In the first [...]
In our last episode, I mentioned the Robert Rodriguez/Quentin Tarantino movie Grindhouse, of which I’m seeing an opening-day matinee shortly. Maybe it’s all the comic books that saturated my brain for thirty years (until quitting the habit last year, but more on that another time), but unlike normal audiences who tend to complain when [...]
Violin-playing Mitchell Johson will argue yes, occasional pop producer Christopher Maguire will argue no, and the audience will vote. (In addition to organizing these events, I host, and the very same man who is the able webmaster of ToddSeavey.com, Michel “The Brain” Evanchik, moderates.)
The clash of the rockers and the rococo happens tomorrow night [...]
The world doesn’t really need more highly personal blogs, but if you really want to know how recent political epochs align with elements of my personal life, I’d say we can break my life, and the past few decades of political activity, into three eras demarcated by the lifespan of my parents’ first dog, Uber, [...]
Half the beauty of blogging is getting to do an end-run around establishment media (not to mention editors), but every once in a while the “fringe” figures get noticed by the mainstream media, too. Today, for instance, Brian Doherty’s Radicals for Capitalism (from which the author read at our March gathering at Lolita Bar) [...]