From the monthly archives:

June 2009

The Noise and Rage and Endless Chatter

June 14, 2009

…and because politics seems to speak so little to what they are going through – because they understand that politics today is a business and not a mission, and what passes for debate is little more than a spectacle – they turn inward, away from the noise and rage and endless chatter. [Barack Obama, The [...]

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Creigh Deeds, the Net, Google, and the New Rules of Politics: Time for a CPC strategy

June 10, 2009

Could one secret to Creigh Deeds’ stunning triumph over his better-known and better-funded opponents Terry McAuliffe and Jim Moran in yesterday’s Democratic gubernatorial primary in Virginia have been a tactical Google ad buy aimed at voters in that state’s Washington DC suburbs? As the dust settles from Deeds’ stunning demolition of his opponents in yesterday’s [...]

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Harvest Wind Power from Electrical Poles

June 10, 2009

French designers/engineers have proposed retrofitting existing transmission towers with wind turbines as a means of generating green power without requiring more land to be ceded to wind farms (part of the Next Generation competition). The pictures below speak for themselves. I imagine the prairies in particular would have vast stretches of power lines that would [...]

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Certainty in Politics

June 9, 2009

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Vision of the Next Century: The Abortion Question is Only Going to Get More Complicated

June 9, 2009

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The Price of Legalizing Pot is Too High

June 9, 2009

“…both of our two already legal drugs — alcohol and tobacco — offer chilling illustrations of how an open market fuels greater harms.” [LAT] The LA Times published a compelling summary of the social-cost arguments against legalization a few days ago. Related: France to raise its drinking age from 16 to 18. Make your own [...]

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The Rosenhan Experiment: “Being Sane in Insane Places” and implications for modern healthcare

June 9, 2009

A thought provoking Wikipedia page, found via Reddit. Rosenhan showed psychiatric diagnoses to be easily invalidated, and the process of institutionalization to be harmful. I’m blogging these days with the theme of “applied common sense,” and in light of Rosenhan’s work, would like to ask what does it mean to be mentally ill? And, how [...]

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Good Comment: Local Government means you can vote with your feet

June 8, 2009

Comment by rabbit, on a post by Dr. Roy. Dr. Roy’s discussion (“Eurosceptism“) is not one I necessarily agree with (I’m not a Christian Monarchist Tory, after all), nor is the fear-the-one-world-order tone of the comment. That being said, I had never really thought of local government in this way – my brain gravitates towards [...]

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That’s cold: Standing caribou frozen solid reminds me of Winnipeg mornings

June 8, 2009

Yes, that’s a dead caribou, frozen to death standing upright. Ok, this is from Alaska, but reminds me of some winter mornings here in Winnipeg. From bitsandpieces, via Cm.

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Flying Prostitute stirs up controversy in the Yukon

June 8, 2009

The Yukon government is charging two Calgarians for violating heritage law by salvaging a WWII bomber (the “flying prostitute” in question) from a Yukon lake. “…[the Yukon gov't] fears the Watson Lake Marauder could wind up in an American private collection, much like a P-39 Cobra fighter that was allowed to leave the Yukon and [...]

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