Brick O'Lore

The modern impediment to learning is attention, not access. — The Stoic Emperor (@TheStoicEmperor) August 4, 2018

A co-worker just talked about a "Darwinian Fate Accelerator." That's a new one to me, but I think I'll have to use that.

Let them protest , but there should be consequences for not following the rules. Via  @MatthewBracken

And we do it to ourselves... modern prison pic.twitter.com/P5XfrQwnJr — Banksy (@lamBanksy) December 8, 2014

Some sites I read for amusement or information. I read Althouse , because I often feel smarter after reading a post. Do I agree all the time...

"This week, Morning Edition explores the "nones" — Americans who say they don't identify with any religion. Demographers ...

WHY GOOD PEOPLE NEED SEMIAUTOMATIC FIREARMS AND “HIGH CAPACITY” MAGAZINES … Part I "Americans have historically modeled their choices ...

I know I make mistakes. Plenty of them. But, I wonder if people have any idea what they are saying. I also know there are conservative/tea p...

FBI: More People Killed with Hammers, Clubs Each Year Than Rifles "Think about it: In 2005 , the number of murders committed with a ...

One review of the data suggests that 2012 was a really bad year and not (in statistical terms) a trend . Mass shootings are rare and rando...

Twitter has been hot with a) people tweeting about getting new AR-15 rifles for Christmas and b) those who are less than pleased with the g...

I have never felt the desire to become a hipster . And, almost by definition, would a true hipster allow the hipster label to be applied?

The SCOTUS decision on Obamacare has everyone's attention, so we've forgotten for the moment what is going on in Europe . It remin...

Or as I've seen in some signatures: You are special. Just like everyone else. Text here . If you've not already seen it a hundred ot...

I wondered how they handled the different people in a household using the same Netflix account : "Take as a first example the Top 10 ...

Bad Idea Edition... We've had  samurai sword umbrellas and ENDO worries that it won't be long until a swat team is called because...

StudioXNYC Foursquare rep says, "Privacy is a modern invention," as if that ends the debate on ethics. Someone in audience y...

For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marriage : "One group still largely resists the trend: college graduates, who overwhelm...

Scary stuff. Cory Doctorow: Lockdown - The coming war on general-purpose computing.   He makes the argument that SOPA and the like ...

Nifty article on the differences in euphemisms between cultures . A Chinese example: One feature of Chinese euphemisms comes from the tona...