All Your Money Are Belong to Government Does it annoy anyone else to see headlines like this, from the NYT: “Charities Rise, Costing Billions in Tax Breaks”? Here’s why: Because it disguises its underlying idea, that tax dollars, really, belong to the government, rather than to, well, taxpayers. I believe Frederic Bastiat would have something to say about this. Charities… Read more →
All Your Money Are Belong to Government Does it annoy anyone else to see headlines like this, from the NYT: “Charities Rise, Costing Billions in Tax Breaks”? Here’s why: Because it disguises its underlying idea, that tax dollars, really, belong to the government, rather than to, well, taxpayers. I believe Frederic Bastiat would have something to say about this. Charities… Read more →
Too Much Interesting This article discusses why art audiences are much more likely to appreciate postmodernism or “avant-gard”ism in art than in music: The human capacity and penchant for organizing and grouping has an easier time making sense of visual chaos than it does of audio chaos. Read if you can understand simple discussions of musical composition and have at… Read more →
Too Much Interesting This article discusses why art audiences are much more likely to appreciate postmodernism or “avant-gard”ism in art than in music: The human capacity and penchant for organizing and grouping has an easier time making sense of visual chaos than it does of audio chaos. Read if you can understand simple discussions of musical composition and have at… Read more →
Never a Dull Newsroom Liz, on why she keeps turning away men: “They get close to you and find out how intelligent you are, then move away.”Kat, in response: “That’s why you gotta act stupid.” Indeed. =)
Never a Dull Newsroom Liz, on why she keeps turning away men: “They get close to you and find out how intelligent you are, then move away.”Kat, in response: “That’s why you gotta act stupid.” Indeed. =)
Newsweek Can’t Read I have no mind because of finals. Yet still I’m posting this, possibly for comment later, but probably not. This woman is so mind-bogglingly Biblically illiterate, it’s sick. Yes. A cover story in Newsweek telling us all one Biblically-illiterate woman’s “proofs” that the Bible, at best, doesn’t preclude homosexual marriage. Poppycock masquerade. If Newsweek will publish this,… Read more →
Newsweek Can’t Read I have no mind because of finals. Yet still I’m posting this, possibly for comment later, but probably not. This woman is so mind-bogglingly Biblically illiterate, it’s sick. Yes. A cover story in Newsweek telling us all one Biblically-illiterate woman’s “proofs” that the Bible, at best, doesn’t preclude homosexual marriage. Poppycock masquerade. If Newsweek will publish this,… Read more →
A Mean(ing) in Holiday So my editors and I are circling emails about what we’re going to write as an editorial for this Thursday’s Collegian. News stories evaporated this week, so we’re having a hard time. I suggested (knowing I’d take eye-rolls and jeers for it) that we “talk about something seasonal but not trite: Thanksgiving. I don’t want to… Read more →
A Mean(ing) in Holiday So my editors and I are circling emails about what we’re going to write as an editorial for this Thursday’s Collegian. News stories evaporated this week, so we’re having a hard time. I suggested (knowing I’d take eye-rolls and jeers for it) that we “talk about something seasonal but not trite: Thanksgiving. I don’t want to… Read more →
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