Culture, Media
Yesterday, NPR revealed that coyotes have been discovered hiding out in our cities, with one researcher estimating that more than 2,000 coyotes live undiscovered in the city of Chicago in particular. I’ve lived in Chicago myself, and the city looms in memory as a mass of brick, asphalt, and concrete, so it’s nigh unfathomable to consider that coyotes were my neighbors.
Culture, Philosophie
Can you imagine the founding fathers writing constitutional amendments to manage the United States budget? That’s the kind of thing that happens in California.
Culture, Media
Major League Baseball’s problem with steroids has become a summer tradition as reliable as the sport itself. Every year we’re treated to stories about some big-name figure being outed as a former user of the drug. Lots of hand-wringing, further allegations, and sometimes even congressional hearings follow, but none of this is ever good enough to dispel the specter of steroid-enhanced performance that returns every year to hang over the sport.
Culture, History, Philosophie
I always think of this angry crank who was notoriously near-sighted when it came to politics and economics whenever I find myself tempted to say anything substantive about economic theory. It’s too easy, in a way, to say things about a subject one has never studied.
Culture, History, Media, Writing/Publishing
Okay. We get it. Newspapers are defunct. They never even had a viable profit model because they succeeded only by selling classified ads to support their journalism and printing costs, sort of like DeLorean selling coke to keep making his cars.
Culture, History, Media
Of course he was wrong. The idea that markets entirely through their own self-interest can regulate themselves is totally absurd. Their only interest is profit. Furthermore, being wrong here has had catastrophic results.
