July 2009
153 posts
“He’s always a step or two behind where his supporters want him to be, getting...”
– Blogger on Obama’s stance
“Strauss’s disciples have inherited a superiority complex as well as a...”
– Shadia Drury on Leo Strauss
“There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are...”
– ‘Noble lie’ entry from Wikipedia
“In his interpretation of Plato’s myth of the cave, Strauss maintained that...”
– Leo Strauss and the neoconservatives
“Strauss-inspired writers believe that the new found freedoms of the sixties are...”
– Leo Strauss and the neoconservatives
“Strauss’s students have left the academy in quest of political power. They...”
– Leo Strauss and the neoconservatives
“The goal of the wise is to ennoble the vulgar. But what could possibly ennoble...”
– Leo Strauss and the neoconservatives
“Irving Kristol, a devoted follower of Strauss and father of neoconservatism, was...”
– Leo Strauss and the neoconservatives
“We do not want to be a burden on our families. We have been through a lot, and...”
– Suicide ‘epidemic’ among Japan’s elderly
“A 400-year warm spell helped the ancient Inca to build the largest empire ever...”
– Discovery News
“For decades, Americans have been told that saturated fat clogs arteries and...”
– Men’s Health
“You know what? Fuck this little prick. I’m really sick of celebrating all...”
– Commenter on MetaFilter thread about kid selling New York’s tap water to New Yorkers in bottles
“Every time the womens’ names came on the screen, so did their height and...”
– Jezebl on Fox’s ‘More To Love’
“For the record: Dane Cook is fucking horrible. Absolutely asshole-sucking awful....”
– Encyclopedia Dramatica
“The CDC has published a map of trends in the teenage birth rate. I ran it...”
– George Monbiot
“After a week of debilitating strikes at targets across Afghanistan, the Taliban...”
– October 15, 2001 - Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender bin Laden
“I’m also reminded of Daniel Tosh, who to me is the poster boy for this...”
– Commenter on MetaFilter
“I wish journalists now wouldn’t come with this faux naivete, as if they...”
– Commenter on MetaFilter
“Why aren’t we left-folk screaming about how unpatriotic it is to let your...”
– Commenter on MetaFilter
“There are whole subclasses of people who deserve to be kicked in the nuts upon...”
– Commenter on MetaFilter
“I think, why women often find AA and the notion of powerlessness and confession...”
– Commenter on MetaFilter
“So I went home and drank and drank and drank. And then it was time for bed, and...”
– Commenter on MetaFilter
“As I heard it described, eating at McDonalds has three stages: 1. Desire 2....”
– Calories are delicious
“Thus, the McGriddle, from the bottom up, is fat, salt, sugar, fat and salt in...”
– MetaFilter
“While normal mice exhibited an increase in dopamine in response to both fake...”
– The Neuroscience of McGriddles
“[S]cientists at Duke came up with a clever paradigm for isolating this more...”
– The Neuroscience of McGriddles
“All the books in the young-adult zone that deal with homosexuality are...”
– Library fight riles up city, leads to book-burning demand
“Well, on Tuesday, they came for Natasha. At 8:30 that morning, as she walked out...”
– How They Killed Chechnya’s Conscience
“Citing an argument used by the Bush administration, the Secret Service rejects a...”
– Los Angeles Times
“Dissolved the tablets with a bit of eye drops (tones down the redness) and mixed...”
– Aspirin and Honey Face Mask
“But wasn’t a Reagan a starchild born in Heaven sent down to Earth to keep...”
– Gawker commenter on the Birthers
“You know that South Park episode where Cartman has Scott Tenorman’s...”
– Commenter on MetaFilter
“You’re not some poor mortal trapped between a cosmic rock and an existential...”
– Dan Savage
“BREAKING NEWS: Kids without jobs don’t like to pay for things.”
– Comment on MetaFilter about the Morgan Stanley intern’s Twitter white paper
“Playing “Tetris” after viewing traumatic material reduces unwanted, involuntary...”
– A Proposal from Cognitive Science
“Instead of the usual 16,000 fans, an unprecedented 59,000 turned up. Joined by...”
– The Disco Sucks! campaign 30 years on
“The real wave she’s riding is a loud, resonant surge of resentment and...”
– Frank Rich - NYTimes.com
“One day he came in and saw that someone had left the weights on the Smith...”
– A.I.G. story on vanityfair.com
“Joe would bully people around. He’d humiliate them and then try to make it up to...”
– A.I.G. story on vanityfair.com
“Well, listen, these same people could now be working right now today at...”
– A.I.G story on vanityfair.com
“Grayson: That’s good, but I want to know the names that you know right now.
...”
– A.I.G. story on vanityfair.com
Panetta Admits CIA Misled Congress on “Significant... →
“The one thing that you said in your email that you are not right about is that...”
– A Coming Out Thread on RealJock
“The mother enters a state of relaxation to allow her body to begin the process...”
– Tenctonese reproduction (Newcomers from the Alien Nation movie/TV series)
“U2 and Bono’s long-held commitment to “save the planet” has come into question...”
– The Independent
“What they’re really saying is that some unknown party could use it to...”
– Ars Technica
“They worship a God who is a male who gangs up with other males against women....”
– Does God Hate Women?