Pentagon sanctioned military proselytizing
Jim Booth has a great (and fairly disturbing) piece on sponsored fundie proselytizing at Scholars & Rogues. Worth the read. Link here.
Read moreGreat week in baseball history
We’ve seen some major historical moments in baseball in the last few days. First, Alex Rodriguez became the youngest man to hit the 500-homerun mark, doing so at 32 years and eight days old. There are no guarantees that he’ll break Hank Aaron’s all-time mark of 755 taters, but even if he never plays another game it’s a remarkable accomplishment.
Read moreMigrating into Facebook
I finally set up my Facebook site. Yay. It looks at the moment like Facebook is enjoying a lot of migration from different directions. For starters, it was only recently opened up to non-college students, so there’s a general influx of new users. A lot of business types appear to be abandoning LinkedIn for Facebook. I’m not unplugging my LinkedIn
Read moreIs the perfect real estate storm about to pop the housing bubble?
I’ve been waiting for the housing crash for awhile. I’m not an expert, but it has seemed to me that we have: a lot of empty existing units; a ridiculous excess of new units being built; absolutely insane financing deals being offered; and accelerating foreclosure numbers. In other words, a perfect storm is brewing.
Read moreSaturday Video Roundup: someone’s in the kitchen with Murdoc
Welcome back to another edition of Scholars & Rogues’ Saturday Video Roundup. Today we begin with television cooking shows, which are getting weirder with each passing day. (Thx to Wendie the C in the L to da A.) Next we take you for a ride on the wayback machine to a scene from high school. I mean, this is how
Read moreSatan’s pajama party: Ken Starr in bed with Hillary Clinton, Dubya slays the GOP
They say that politics makes for strange bedfellows. But this is ridiculous. Kenneth Starr’s Law Firm Gives More Money to Clinton By Lindsay Fortado July 31 (Bloomberg) — Lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis, the law firm that’s home to Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr and Bush administration official Jay Lefkowitz, have given more to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign than to all
Read moreThe UNFATHOMABLE cost of fixing ALL THOSE BRIDGES: a moment of perspective…
According to an article in today’s Washington Post: WASHINGTON — More than 70,000 bridges across the country are rated structurally deficient like the span that collapsed in Minneapolis, and engineers estimate repairing them all would take at least a generation and cost more than $188 billion. One prominent blogger is appalled: This is the kind of disaster that just doesn’t
Read moreBlogger’s Choice – thanks for your support
At the top of the column to the right you’ll see that S&R has been nominated for a Blogger’s Choice award in the Political Blog category. We’re obviously proud of that, and are especially pleased that some of you have chosen to cast a vote for us. As it stands right now we’re in the top 20, and that’s a
Read moreVoIP arrives in Second Life
As I noted a few weeks back, my old colleagues at Gronstedt Group are hosting a weekly “fika” at their “Train for Success” site in Second Life. These get-togethers are a good chance for corporate training people to compare notes, explore, ask questions, and generally socialize themselves to the booming 2L multiverse, which is evolving into a pretty serious business
Read moreReframing the Republican lie about wealth in America
In America, the Republicans are seen as the party of money and wealth. This perception is certainly accurate in one sense – the GOP is the favored party of the wealthy elite. Unfortunately, the party is also supported in large numbers by those who have no wealth, and thanks to the policies of the Republican party, no hope of ever
Read moreSkip Prosser, RIP
Wake Forest University’s head basketball coach, Skip Prosser, died the other day of an apparent heart attack. He was only 56. Tributes are pouring in. The university community obviously grieves the tragic loss. The coaching fraternity is heartbroken. Dick Vitale, whose entire life seems to be college hoops, was stunned. And so on. As those around me know, I wasn’t
Read moreSaturday video roundup: the good, the baaaad and the fugly….
It’s been a great week for videos. By all means, keep those links coming. First up, you may have seen this week’s report about drunk astronauts. Well, before you can be a drunk astronaut you have to be a drunk pilot. (Thanks to Steve Reynolds.)
Read moreThe Internet is dead! Long live … television?
So says Mark Cuban. Now, I’m typically a big Cuban fan. But I’m looking at an AdAge report on his remarks from yesterday’s Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) Summit, and I’m a little puzzled. Speaking at the Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) Summit in Washington yesterday, Mr. Cuban declared “the Internet is dead” in an otherwise subdued panel
Read moreVerseDay: minimalism
After last week’s fun little exchange over poetry-related topics my fellow scrogues and I agreed to make Thursdays Poetry Day here at S&R. Let me kick things off. Since we’ve also been chatting behind the scenes about the relative wordiness of things we’ve seen and written, I’d like to make today’s subject minimalism: let’s talk about poems that don’t use
Read moreSummer of scandal and the death of sport?
I love sports. Always have. I grew up playing all the usual sports and eagerly tried out a lot of others when I got older. I’ve always been a big spectator, too, watching everything from football, basketball and baseball to soccer, track, cycling, volleyball, water polo – whatever was on, you know? But these days I watch less sports than
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