If all goes as planned, you’ll be able to watch me on Pajamas Media’s PJTV here (with subscription [CORRECTION: sign-in apparently suffices]) tonight anytime from 7pm or so on, I believe, talking about the Tea Party protest (against government spending) that I’ll be attending at about that same time downtown at NYC City Hall (join [...]
…is meat fur? That would certainly taste awful.
Maybe I should leave the animal welfare questions to Steven Pinker and our May 6 debaters, though, and tomorrow — April 15 — get back to talking about questions of political economy (on the day of the Tea Party protest at New York City Hall — be there, [...]
Four of the most interesting libertarianish types I know have blogged less this year, while a fifth admits he mostly blogs photos of his plants lately (and with DC Comics’ climactic “Final Crisis” storyline mostly over, reading about comics seems kind of pointless, too). The Onion also seemed a bit perfunctory the first few months [...]
This weekend, the New York Times (online only) ran my letter defending the “Tea Party” protests going on around the country. As my front page right margin suggests, I’ll attend one on Wednesday — and recount it to you on Thursday at the bar Merchants NY East, if you join me there.
On a related [...]
My Arkansas state representative pal Dan Greenberg mentioned looking forward to the show Parks and Recreation, which (thank goodness!) mocks local-government bureaucracy — and speaking of bureaucracy, he also noted this Onion piece about a Kafka-inspired, globally-confusing airport (noted on the NYT blog due to the Onion’s interesting, lines-blurring recruitment of a veteran CNN anchor).
Kafka [...]
Lest anyone think I always value nerdhood more than rock, I have to say that I actually find myself less impressed when I hear songs by Garbage — with Shirley Manson’s cold, emotionless vocals — now that I’ve seen her play a Terminator on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which comes to end (barring some [...]
With our bar debate on animal welfare coming up on May 6, it’s worth noting that one charge against the wacky animal rights group (and occasional terrorism sponsor) PETA is not as heinous as it first appears. They were found to be euthanizing animals and in some cases improperly disposing of the carcasses despite [...]
I criticized populists and isolationists of various sorts over the past few days — but that shouldn’t be taken to mean (as some cosmopolitan globalist-establishment types are understandably inclined to think) that people with big visions involving the entire, interconnected world are necessarily less dangerous — nor even that they are any more sophisticated in [...]
In yesterday’s entry, I worried about the false impression, to which many people are inclined, that a less-connected, more local world would be a happier, safer, stabler, more prosperous one. I’m not knocking idyllic little villages when you can find one (and still have access to supplies from outside when needed), but the Cato Institute’s [...]
Yesterday, I mentioned the problem of phony capitalism warped by political elites. I worry that this — not any specific, more temporary stock market fluctuation — may be what’s keeping stocks low (despite some recent improvement).
That is, much as I’d like to agree with optimists who say we’ll soon recover from this slump as from [...]
In last week’s Book Selection(s) of the Month entry, I mentioned the comic book character Octobriana, ostensibly created by underground Soviet artists as a bit of anarchist subversion but really created by one hoaxing Czech writer. In a similarly complex case of a fake-fake, it’s possible that the original story of “Potemkin villages” — [...]
“Dinosaur crimes!” The phrase could mean many things:
•Perhaps the offense against scientific standards of rationality committed by “young-Earth creationists” (of whom we likely had none in last night’s skeptic-heavy debate audience, which, despite a courageous and very well-received effort by Rabbi Simcha, voted overwhelmingly that religion does not make people better).
•Perhaps cruelty toward animals (the [...]
ToddSeavey.com Book Selection(s) of the Month (April Fool’s Day 2009)
Ten idiocy-related texts for this April Fool’s Day (which is also the day of our big Debate at Lolita Bar about religion between Secular Conscience author Austin Dacey and Up, Up, and Oy Vey!/Shtick Shift author Rabbi Simcha Weinstein, of course):
•It’s Not Easy Being Green and [...]