The Week in Weak
Here are the weakest things that caught my attention this week. Getting too Happy That Trump Lost A Slate piece captures the attitude: "Donald Trump Lost the Iowa Caucus. Good…
How Long Do You Want Me To Be Scared?
Accorting to Slate, Michael Robbins's Slate book review of Atheists: The Origin of the Species is one of Slate's more circulated articles, probably because few subjects (except porn) drive traffic as much as atheist trolling.…
Do You Have To Read A Friend’s Book?
From Slate: No. One cannot just go around reading the books of friends and acquaintances. The exceptions to this rule are few and obvious—looking at a draft to give constructive criticism,…
I Hate The Sun, and We Have to Save America From It.
In 2007, Slate inaugurated the A Fine Whine column, in which a Slate writer lets fly at some (usually petty) annoyance for a couple of pages. It came infrequently at first, but…
Are You Pondering What I’m Pondering?
My review of Jim Murdoch's novel Milligan and Murphy is up on the Dactyl Review site. Given that my review is mixed, I must say that Mr. Murdoch is an awfully good sport. Nerds…
Dudes and Doubitability
Reading Rebecca Watson's Slate article on sexism and sexual harassment in the skeptical community depressed me this morning. (And with a cold coming on and a car in the shop,…
The Missing Liberal Canon
A Slate article by Beverly Gage with the unfortunate headline "Why Is There No Liberal Ayn Rand?" crossed my sight earlier today, inspiring the question "Why should anyone wish for…