Category Archives: Scholars and Rogues
A quick shout-out: thinking and writing about our frustration with Obama
Here at S&R we try and generate as much original content as possible and, unlike a lot of blogs, we don’t dedicate much energy to linking other stories around the ‘sphere. Aside from Mike’s Nota Bene series, anyway. But earlier today three other outlets linked to my “Will you vote for Obama (again)?” piece, and since these places are trying
Read moreScholars & Rogues unveils new logo
Something we’ve wanted for awhile is a logo – not just the text logo, which we like, but something visual and iconic. Many ideas have been kicked around and set aside for one reason or another (my lack of design skill being at the top of that list). But not long ago, we hit on a rough idea and were
Read moreWe’re looking for poems that we didn’t know we were looking for: Scholars & Rogues launches poetry journal
S&R readers have probably noticed that we like poetry around here. Something we have been talking about for quite a while, in fact, is why we didn’t take the next step and become a poetry publisher. Now, after months of planning, we’re doing precisely that. On Monday, we will publish our first poem as a poetry journal. If you’re wondering,
Read moreS&R is looking for guest writers (and artists, and photographers…)
Scholars & Rogues is in the process of refreshing, updating and expanding our operation (you’ll see some changes in the coming days and weeks, with any luck), and one of the things we’re doing is increasing our emphasis on guest contributors. We’ve always published outside writers, and the truth is that there’s a lot of talent out there, talent that
Read moreTop 1K: It’s a big day at S&R
There are several ways of evaluating a blog’s place in the food chain. The one we’ve always paid the most attention to is Technorati, a search and ranking site that indexes well over 850,000 blogs. If you’re interested in learning more about how Technorati operates, you can review this overview at DollarShower.com. Anyway, as of this morning, Scholars & Rogues
Read moreDirty hippies love sports, too
You know how we are. Bunch of shrill liberal crybabies who hate freedom and love terrorists, wish we could destroy all vestiges of American business and give every hard-earned penny that you earn to welfare queens, etc. All of which is true, especially the parts about how George Soros is secretly paying us all (anybody want to chill on my
Read moreIt was three years ago today: happy birthday S&R
Three years ago today Scholars & Rogues launched with two posts: Whythawk weighed in with a thoughtful critique of corporate charity and I reported on Joe Wilson’s speech at the Conference on World Affairs (Joe is Mr. Valerie Plame, by the way), where he said that “Fred Thompson is a member of the treason faction of the Republican Party.” The
Read moreS&R enters “bipartisanship partnership” with The Drudge Report
As anyone who remembers The 5th Estate, which was the Scholars & Rogues precursor, will recall, this community is founded on a strong sense of bipartisanship and the belief that much can be accomplished when the neo-conservative and staunch liberal talk honestly across the table. We’ve gotten away from this ideal over the past couple of years, but we’ve taken
Read moreWelcome to the Dark Side: another PC business user defects to Mac
About two and a half years ago, when I was running my own little one-man consulting operation, Microsoft killed my computer. They did it remotely via a routine update. If you use PCs, you get these updates all the time, and usually they install automatically and there’s no real issue. But this time something went horribly wrong. It wasted my
Read moreNew: S&R persona for Firefox
If you’re a Firefox user, you’ve probably upgraded to v3.6 by now. If not, you should – it has some great new features, especially in the arena of privacy. 3.6 also has a cool new personalization feature called “Personas”; this one lets you import all kinds of cool design into the look and feel of your browser. There are thousands
Read moreRIP Martin Bosworth, original Scrogue
One of our original scrogue colleagues has passed away. Martin Bosworth, who helped us found Scholars & Rogues in April of 2007, was a central member of our community for our first year. He wrote frequently and energetically about progressive political issues of all sorts, and had a particular expertise in Internet policy issues. His death is a significant loss
Read moreJohn, Elizabeth, Rielle and the dumpster fire at the end of the world
There’s a train rolling to a stop just outside of town. It’s a long train, and each flatbed carries 20 dumpsters. Each dumpster is filled to overflowing with nuclear waste and flaming grease. As the copter shot pulls away the final credits roll over the first few bars of Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.” We can
Read moreS&R suspends fund drive; please support Haitian relief
We’re grateful for those who have contributed to our find drive, but after some discussion we’ve all agreed that it’s far more important that our readers devote their energies to helping the victims of the recent Haitian earthquake. We’ll resume the fund drive at some point in the future. Thank you, and please, give generously.
Read moreHappy 2010 to our Facebook and Twitter fans; you can follow, too
Scholars & Rogues wishes a very special Happy 2010 to our fans – all 164 of them. Hey, it’s about quality, not quantity, right? We know there are more than 164 really smart people on Facebook, though, so if you aren’t already following us you can do so here or by clicking on the Facebook icon you see in the
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