Will Penn State cancel its football program?
Given that they generated $50 million in profits from a $70 million revenue stream, the “smart money” is betting against: If the Allegations Are True, Penn State Should End Its Football Program: Next...
View ArticleStop the attempt to nationalize the internet (for the US government)
If you don’t already associate SOPA with evil, Michael Geist explains why you should: The U.S. Congress is currently embroiled in a heated debated over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), proposed...
View ArticleSnapshots from Greece
Brendan O’Neill has a few snippets from Athens: ‘Prime ministers should be chosen by us, not Angela Merkel,’ says the taxi driver taking me to the Acropolis. Taxi drivers here love talking politics,...
View ArticleUpdating 1984 to 2011: tweetcrime replaces thoughtcrime
Patrick Hayes in the Independent: Who’s afraid of the English Defence League (EDL) clicktivists? Well the police for a start, who decided to undertake a mass pre-emptive arrest of 179 EDL supporters,...
View ArticleThings not to say in a job interview
Should your resumé somehow get through the gauntlet of the HR queue (and here are some tips to help you there), you may be able to get an interview. Interviews are tough, and intentionally so:...
View ArticleCan someone do to Gingrich what Dan Savage did to Santorum?
I was pretty sure that the GOP had gotten rid of Newt Gingrich back in the 1990s in the same way you’d scrape dog poop off the sole of your shoe, but through some totally inconceivable twist of fate,...
View ArticleA topic that sends the Guardian off into deep social conservative waters
Of the various British papers I link to on a regular basis, the Guardian is the most liberal. It can generally be depended upon to come down on the liberal side of any question except for one: … on the...
View ArticleEU panel spends three years to determine that water cannot be sold as a...
Ah, Brussels! What would we do without you and your panels of experts on quiet news days? Brussels prompted a flood of abuse this week by apparently banning bottled water vendors from promoting their...
View ArticleAn antidote to the “OMG! China will eat our lunches” meme
For those inclined to worry overmuch about the rise of China as a world power (as opposed to merely as an economic competitor): The real importance of this story does not, however, have much to do with...
View ArticleJourneyQuest virtues: Compassion, Honour, and Courage
Original season episode 1 here. Related posts: JourneyQuest, Episode 1 The Guild Season 4 Episode 1 The Guild, Season 4 Episode 5
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Internet users’ password security still hasn’t improved
Do you use any of the following terms as your password? If so, congratulations, you’re helping keep the rest of us from being as easily hacked as you are: 1. password 2. 123456 3. 12345678 4. qwerty 5....
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This week in Guild Wars 2 news
I’ve been accumulating news snippets about the as-yet-to-be-formally-scheduled release of Guild Wars 2 for an email newsletter I send out to my friends and acquaintances in the Guild Wars community....
View ArticleConrad Black sneers at your various eagles and praises the Canadian beaver
There’s been a crack-brained effort in recent weeks to dispense with the beaver as Canada’s emblem animal and replace it with some frozen-footed albino bear. Conrad Black objects: It is with regret...
View ArticleThe GOP’s dream candidate . . . for the Democrats
I’m still somewhat in shock that Newt Gingrich is taken seriously as a candidate by the GOP. I’m even more bowled over by the fact that he’s at least temporarily neck-and-neck with Mitt Romney. I’ve...
View ArticleThree reasons not to bail out student loan borrowers
Related posts: The next financial bubble: student loans The profile of the “angry college student” Reasons not to get angsty over China’s growth
View ArticleNFL week 11 predictions
After a strong start to the season, my picks have been regressing to the mean over the last few weeks. I’m hoping that this week’s predictions will turn that trend around (getting the Thursday night...
View ArticleHow is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff like a used car salesman?
Answer: when he uses the latest technology to get the Defense Secretary to a meeting on time. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta shoved his head into a snug aviator helmet topped with goggles one...
View ArticleIf you’re not paying for the service, you are the product
John Naughton points out that TANSTAAFL still applies, even to “free” services on the internet like Facebook and Twitter: Physics has Newton’s first law (“Every body persists in its state of being at...
View ArticleIn praise of Sir Wilfrid Laurier
A conservative senator writes of the greatest Liberal prime minister in Canadian history: Today, almost 100 years after Laurier’s death, I believe as strongly as my grandfather did that great figures...
View ArticleCircular reasoning in traffic control
If you’ve ever been driving in Britain, you’ll have encountered the ubiquitous roundabout. The arguments for adopting them in North America are pretty strong: The modern, safe roundabout first entered...
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