Happy 2010, folks. We hope everybody’s football schedule runneth over. If you have a minute, how about telling us what your New Year’s resolution is? Maybe we can all be one great big mutual support group, huh? 🙂
Read moreUPDATE: We’ve now been informed by our host that we’ll be down for maintenance sometime Saturday, not today. Hopefully an extra day or two to plan will assure a quicker turnaround. Meanwhile, we hope everyone is enjoying a nice day off. Happy holidays…
Read moreIt’s that time of year again. Yes, I’m talking about holiday season, when we all join together and recreate the timeless materialistic ritual of shopping. Some of us try and take it in the true spirit of giving, but if you’ve turned on a TV lately then you know that ’tis the season is really all about our culture’s obsessive
Read moreHappy Thanksgiving from your friends at Scholars & Rogues. Let’s go around the table and everybody say what they’re thankful for. I’ll go first. I, Dr. Slammy, am thankful that the local news shows here in Denver aren’t any dumber than they are. Because if they were, the anchors would be on the set communicating in grunts and taking turns
Read moreYou may have noticed a preponderance of error messages (and corresponding lack of cool ArtsWeek posts) over the past couple of days. Short version: significant technical problems. Massive thanks to Brian Angliss, who in addition to being our star enviro reporter is also our site’s technical director. I don’t know enough to adequately explain the problem, but it seems to
Read morePrediction is a big, big business these days, and even those of us who aren’t explicitly in the prediction business probably do all we can to make sense of the future. For example: Does your company do marketing research? (If it’s a business of any size and sophistication, the answer is probably yes.) Do you track the financial pages? Do
Read moreY’all can blame our friend fikshun for passing along this tasteless bit of hackery.
Read moreI just thought inquiring minds might want to know.
Read more…and win a prize! Recently I was moving into my new office and decided to do something at least a little interesting on my walls. First I put these together – artistic treatments of my four favorite poets: Eliot, Yeats, Thomas and Charles Wright, who is probably our greatest living versificationist.
Read moreAt the request of Lara Amber, the most bright young lady you see in our better comment threads from time to time, we have established a new Scholars & Rogues Facebook page. If you’re a Facebooker – and really, who isn’t? – drop by, join, and carry on in whatever way seems appropriate.
Read moreToday is the last day of voting! Please vote for us. Also, a climate-denying blog is presently leading for “best Science blog” when its content is hardly scientific. Please go here and vote for Pharyngula. It’s true. Scholars & Rogues has been nominated (again) for a 2008 Weblog Award in the Midsize Blog category. We’re not sure who nominated us
Read moreIt has been alleged that Scholars & Rogues is not, strictly speaking, a political blog. Sure, we write about overtly political issues and devote our share of time to things like media policy, energy and the environment, business and the economy, and international dynamics. Yes, we were credentialed to cover the DNC, but we don’t really do hard, insider, by
Read moreHappy Thanksgiving from all of us here at S&R. Today we invite those of you reading (and really, don’t you have anything better to do?) to tell us what you’re thankful about. I’ll go first. While I have much to be thankful for – a wonderful wife, the coolest dog alive, etc. – I find myself really appreciating the fact
Read morePart two of the Zero Coordinate and EccentricProduction Web documentary series on blogging and political media is now posted. Have a look.
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