Winter’s Haven

Julian Sanchez has an article in The Nation, which begins

We know the rules by now, the strange conventions and stilted Kabuki scripts that govern our cartoon facsimile of a national security debate. The Obama administration makes vague, reassuring noises about constraining executive power and protecting civil liberties, but then merrily adopts whatever appalling policy George [...]

Firstly, Ars Technica brings us the news that gyroscopes are the new training wheels. Every physics major in the world is undoubtedly kicking themselves for not having invented this sooner. I certainly am.
Secondly, Dan of XARK writes in defense of rule breaking generally, and in defense of cyclists breaking traffic laws in particular. I’d sign [...]

Glenn Greenwald says that among progressives there has been
a tribal refusal to criticize one’s own, a gut belief that someone as good and just as Barack Obama couldn’t possibly really be continuing Bush/Cheney policies and complicitly helping to suppress their war crimes
…and he documents just how very, very different the reality is.

Tolerance is a terrible word. Here’s a real, live example which illustrates the problem all too well:

My unwillingness to tolerate your intolerance doesn’t make me intolerant.

Ugh. There is a way to interpret that sentence that makes it something other than an analytic falsehood, but it’s still very confusing. The dictionary actually addresses the different meanings [...]