[cross-posted at Liberty & Power]
By way of follow-up to my earlier mention of the NY Times Magazine’s write-up of Kelly, see Charles’ post.
Who Ya Gonna Believe, The Cops Or Your Lying Eyes?
The trailer for Changeling (from B5 creator J. Michael Straczysnki’s screenplay about the ever-helpful LAPD) is now online.
Death Wish
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power]
So Barr disses Paul, and Paul responds by endorsing Baldwin. (Conical hat tip to Jesse Walker.)
On the one hand, this is more evidence of the strategically suicidal nature of the Barr campaign. (Which of course is fine by me: “It falls, it decays; who would preserve it? But I – I even want to push it!”) Surely Ron Paul’s support, or at least non-opposition, would have been an asset to Barr (he’s aware that Ron Paul has a bit of a following, yes?), and he could easily have avoided pissing off Paul and the Paulistas the way he did.
But on the other hand, Paul’s support for someone who says stuff like this doesn’t exactly do much to allay my concerns about Paul.
Philosophy and History
[cross-posted at Liberty & Power]
My colleague Kelly Jolley is the subject of a write-up in this past weekend’s New York Times Magazine. I’ve often described Auburn as “the coolest philosophy department in the world”; this article will give you a glimpse of Kelly’s central role in the story of how it became that way.
In other news, my fourth AOTP post went up on Friday: Those Who Control the Past Control the Future.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Tom Tomorrow is sometimes accused of satirising only the right and never the left. But I seem to recall one This Modern World strip in which someone accidentally drops a lit match and then quickly steps on it to extinguish it – while the punditocracy immediately goes into overdrive, speculating on how, if the match hadn’t been snuffed out, it might have caused forest fires that would devastate whole cities; they conclude: “I think this shows the need for more regulation.” Anyone know of a link to that?
In other news, I’m off to FEE again tomorrow for an Austro-Virginian bash.
Broken Window Fallacies?
The comment thread on last week’s 19-word post “Say What?” has now reached 98 posts.