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Thursday

I'm OK Depressed, You're OK Depressed I listened to an hour-long podcast with the author of The Noble Lie: When Scientists Give the Right Answers for the Wrong Reasons . It sounds like a great book and the podcast [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/09/greenberg_

Nine Days with Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Authority "Ochlocrats who never tire of accusing conservatives and Catholics of superstition, illogical traditionalism, and 'unscientific' procedure make an act of faith in the inner illumination of the individual and the infallibility of numerical majorities." I'm a firm believer that every man has an

Monday

Queer Winds Blowing Ahead The spring blitz continued over the weekend. We got a call at 9:00 Friday night, telling us that our son needed to be at a ball diamond sixty minutes away by 7:00 a.m. the next morning. Yuck. I spent all morning Saturday at

Tuesday

Happy Up Americans are rich, make no doubt about it. But we're not happy. "Joyless lottery winners" is how a writer for The New Yorker says about us in this nifty piece about recent eudemonistic research [http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/03/22/

Monday

Comical Queeridity Archie Comics is going gay! The gay's name is "Kevin." But they're not trying to normalize homosexuality or anything like that, not at all: "The strapping blond will defeat Jughead in a burger eating contest, win the affection of Veronica and

Monday

The Urban Woodsman Alright, I have a little secret: I enjoy the fashion pages of New York magazine, as well as the fashion issues of Forbes magazine. I never spend more than five minutes on either, mind you, but those five minutes are normally pretty satisfying. I, for instance, often

From the Notebooks

The Element of Class I remember my Dad telling me that time preference is the best measure of class. Class isn't based on race, nationality, religion, or money. The single-best determining factor of class is the ability to forego short-term pleasure for the sake of long-term gain. He

Tuesday

Ignorant of Theophilus? "There's more to sports than winning." "It's not about winning and losing." "Winning isn't the most important thing." Those types of platitudes surround sports today, especially youth sports. And I have to admit: I don&

The Little Arts

Talk is Not Cheap Ludwig van Beethoven once explained to Johann Goethe that the artist is a great man deserves reverence. To illustrate his point, and to Goethe's flabbergasted astonishment, Beethoven crossed his arms and rudely walked through a group of gathered nobility. Beethoven's impolite walk

Feature Essay

Slowly Learning to Live I'm not looking to join last summer's Tropic Thunder velitation [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropic_Thunder#Controversy], but about ten years ago I volunteered to sell Tootsie Rolls to help people with mental disabilities. I figured it was an easy way