Category Archives: Splendor!

Will Republicans repeal Obamacare next January — or ever? Don’t hold your breath. Mainstream politicians of both parties are addicted to corporate campaign contributions — and who knows what other kinds of bribes? — so what we will get will … Continue reading →

I’m writing this the day before the United States Supreme Court is expected to announce its ObamaCare decision. It’s possible that the court will rule nationally-socialized medicine “legal,” or, more probably, a majority of the justices will declare that some … Continue reading →

If you read the early reviews of The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO series, you will have discovered that people in the news business don’t get fiction and really, really hate to be criticized from their left flank. The show … Continue reading →

Six years ago Friday, I launched BloodhoundBlog with the words cited in the headline: In a subsistence culture, the work of the mind is precious and literally unsupportable. We are by now so rich that millions of people can create … Continue reading →

From The Wall Street Journal, the background on the founding of Udacity, the free and massively disruptive on-line computer sciences university. The scions of the ruling class like to make believe that their silk neckties and secret handshakes imbue them … Continue reading →

That would be English, of course: There is a huge shift underway, and it has become extremely rare to meet a scientific researcher or international business-person who cannot speak fluent English. How else would Peruvians communicate with the Chinese? But … Continue reading →

Say goodbye to Hollywood: The business model funding the television business is failing: We still consume some TV content, but we consume it when and where we want it, and we consume it deliberately: In other words, we don’t settle … Continue reading →

Do you have the idea that Republicans are pro-capitalist? Friends of business? Job creators? Innovators? Think again. From The Hill: GOP governors bolster online sales tax push. This is not a new issue, but the new news is that some … Continue reading →

[This week’s movie is concerned with the kind of behavior many people deride as being “arrogant” — behavior I consider thrillingly normal in human beings. The text quoted below comes from a post I wrote at BloodhoundBlog.com. –GSS] Extracted from … Continue reading →

If you have followed the anti-educationism movement, you will be familiar with John Taylor Gatto. A one-time New York State Teacher of the Year turned apostate, Gatto has spent the last twenty years denouncing traditional public schooling and promoting home-schooling. … Continue reading →

Today’s Spreecast explores an argument from Man Alive!, specifically from Chapter 2, which is currently under discussion at FreeTheAnimal.com: 1. “We now know we know nothing!” Either your mind is inherently unreliable or the world outside your mind is fundamentally … Continue reading →

Tuesday night, celebrating the Tea Party’s electoral victories, Glenn Harlan Reynolds, the Instapundit, offered up these words in the Washington Examiner: As millions of Americans were drawn into politics for the first time, many of them learned something important: It’s … Continue reading →

With no over-arching theme, here are some links to articles I’ve seen this week that I think are interesting: Looking for a reality show worth caring about? A Dutch entrepreneur is going to use a reality show to populate a … Continue reading →

My second Spreecast was better and worse than the first. It was worse because we got hit with a few technical gremlins, resulting in the videocast being split into two segments, which are embedded below. But it was substantially better … Continue reading →

Come Spree with me today at 11 am MST. I want to play with Spreecast.com to see what kind of talk radio video magic I can make. I have some Big Ideas I want to take up, but I’m also … Continue reading →