Matt -- Gaylord Perry has died. As much as I know you love baseball, his mid-career 1974 autobiography Me and the Spitter is totally worth the read. It's hilarious.
Thought the entire panel discussion on the Glenn Show covered some interesting topics, some of which I think apply not only to black Americans, but are perhaps elements of the human condition that we're all working our way through.
I also caught Kmele's debate about the relevance of public radio and thought it was really good. I recently read Neil deGrasse Tyson's new book, Starry Messenger, and he makes the point that technological advances happen exponentially rather than linearly and I think we experience this in life and aren't always sure when something has become obsolete because our emotional attachments make us suckers for a sunken-cost-fallacy valuation, rather than a cold and emotionless assessment of whether something provides us a sufficient first step forward into the future. Kmele did a great job discussing the relevant particulars and I like that his arguments presented a reasonable case without even really having to take any shots at the other guy's position. I think that seems like the least assailible way to debate something.
Really enjoyed the Reason Roundtable episode, just some comments:
1. A question came in around hypothetical Libertarian scrap fights; it seems my vote at least is for current Reason Roundtable Representatives vs some other potential RRR folks...
2. Liked Nick Gillespie's points about never been better here in the parts of our privileged existence, but would add that for a not insignificant few, that is not quite the thing...
3. Peter Suderman's points about how journalists in China are doing it tough is very apposite and widespread true across the region
Matt -- Gaylord Perry has died. As much as I know you love baseball, his mid-career 1974 autobiography Me and the Spitter is totally worth the read. It's hilarious.
Thought the entire panel discussion on the Glenn Show covered some interesting topics, some of which I think apply not only to black Americans, but are perhaps elements of the human condition that we're all working our way through.
I also caught Kmele's debate about the relevance of public radio and thought it was really good. I recently read Neil deGrasse Tyson's new book, Starry Messenger, and he makes the point that technological advances happen exponentially rather than linearly and I think we experience this in life and aren't always sure when something has become obsolete because our emotional attachments make us suckers for a sunken-cost-fallacy valuation, rather than a cold and emotionless assessment of whether something provides us a sufficient first step forward into the future. Kmele did a great job discussing the relevant particulars and I like that his arguments presented a reasonable case without even really having to take any shots at the other guy's position. I think that seems like the least assailible way to debate something.
I'm disappointed that Dylan did a cover of Brave Combo's polka arrangement of Must Be Santa without giving attribution to the original.
Here's the original with a couple live versions:
https://youtu.be/t87eJXofT6M
https://youtu.be/YklHIk3tyZM
And back when Joe Cripps (with the jingling johnny in the back) was still around:
https://youtu.be/fnc076s4jt4
Great band, worth exploring further. Lots of fun live.
Really enjoyed the Reason Roundtable episode, just some comments:
1. A question came in around hypothetical Libertarian scrap fights; it seems my vote at least is for current Reason Roundtable Representatives vs some other potential RRR folks...
2. Liked Nick Gillespie's points about never been better here in the parts of our privileged existence, but would add that for a not insignificant few, that is not quite the thing...
3. Peter Suderman's points about how journalists in China are doing it tough is very apposite and widespread true across the region