Unqualified Offerings

The easiest kind of sycophant to be would have to be clam-follower.

Kevin Drum has a useful summary of how to deal with a spyware infestation. I’ll note that, while it’s painfully obvious I don’t set the Official Libertarian Line on, well, anything, someone who causes software to install itself on your machine wtihout permission, and to take active measures to prevent removal, up to and including [...]

Eschaton guest-blogger Hecate is exactly the annoying sort of liberal that Eschaton proprietor Atrios says hardly exist. Skim here and here (I won’t insist that you read) to see.

War has got me in a mood today, but a wonderful family dinner has lifted it enough that I’ll spare you for at least a day. See last year’s entry for holiday cheer. See Hitherby Dragons today if you too are in a mood, and see no point in fighting it.

I for One Never Doubted It
Thus, democracy may exist in a range of taxa and does not require advanced cognitive capacity.
Conradt and Roper, Group Decision-Making in Animals, quoted by Crooked Timber.

I have no idea what’s really going on in Ukraine. Frankly, I doubt you do either.

Not content to leave asshole tactics to MEMRI, CAIR has filed multiple libel notices against David Frum and others.

Why bring yourself down reading political blogs when you could be enjoying a top-notch diarist like Mimi Smartypants instead? Mimi produces more or less weekly entries – discursive ones that repay the time spent reading them. I’m a little concerned that she devotes so much ire to the children’s television show, Maisy, while seemingly ignoring [...]

I’d be fascinated to see any refutation of the factual claims Michael Ewens and Arthur Silber have found about draconian IP laws imposed on Iraqi farmers, who, on plausible readings of the source documents, “will be forced to use plant seeds from specific US companies, effectively banning the farmers from using their own seeds.” From [...]

Hm. I’d say Juan Cole, Eschaton and Henry Farrell are good candidates.