Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2581
September 3, 2010
Dueling Matts
by Conor Friedersdorf
Matthew Yglesias and Matt Welch are a great Bloggingheads pairing. Especially recommened is this section on the Brothers Koch, donors to non-profits, and related issues.
Bloggingheads.tv - United States - Matt Welch - Government - Brothers Koch
Dissent Of The Day
by Patrick Appel
A reader writes:
The argument that sweatshops are good is one made in ignorance. People who believe this tend I fear to define what happens in the world by means of statistics rather than with a variety of tools which might/should include direct, extended experience not simply of the life of someone working in a sweatshop but of her family and community and the local environment. The negative effects of sweatshops are almost always greater than the seeming growth in...
Let's Not Exaggerate the Importance of the Ivies
by Conor Friedersdorf
A reader named Mark writes:
With regard to your comments on the limits of meritocracy, I agree with much of what you have to say (and I'm saying that as a Harvard Law graduate who used to work at big law firms, so maybe that's a statement against interest). However, I have to critique what seems to be an apparent assumption of yours, namely that the "Northeast professional elite" runs the country, and therefore we really have to worry about how that elite is...
"Tripping Over Robo-Tripping"
by Chris Bodenner
Jacob Sullum sets his sights on the FDA's case for banning the over-the-counter sale of dextromethorphan, the cough suppressant found in Robitussin. (How would Chris Rock's dad cope?)
Food and Drug Administration - Robitussin - Dextromethorphan - Cough medicine - Recreational use of dextromethorphan
World's First Double Backflip In A Wheelchair
by Chris Bodenner
What have you done lately?
Web Design and Development - United States - Government - Netflix - Islam
The Macho Salad
by Chris Bodenner
This is the most brilliantly ribald thing I've seen in a while.
Salad - Home - Chris Bodenner - Shopping - United States
About My Job: The Academic Librarian
by Conor Friedersdorf
A reader writes:
Donna Reed in the nightmare portion of "It's a Wonderful Life," be-spectacled, bunned, and timid, seems still to be the exemplar in people's head when they think of a librarian. And, although we have a country full of college graduates, a librarian is still conceived of as the matronly local public librarian, stamping cards and finding interesting books for tweens.
But librarianship is both more rigorous and less self-important than people think. My...
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Playing as the Enemy
by Conor Friedersdorf
The next iteration of Medal of Honor, a video game, has a multiplayer mode that gamers will play on the Internet, where some people will play as the good guys, and others will play as the Taliban, trying their best to kill allied troops.
Via Jacob Sullum, a reaction from a writer at The New York Times:
If Medal of Honor let you play as the Taliban throughout an entire single-player campaign, then we would have a real controversy on our hands. Imagine the reaction to a...
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