2012-02-02T22:53:35-06:00Emily St. Auberthttp://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01340&title=Sobbing-about-SOPA2012-01-18T13:16:00-06:002012-01-18T13:16:00-06:00

In general, the anti-SOPA arguments are meritless fear-mongering, and the results they predict either could not come true for practical reasons (surely once the bill is passed nerds will immediately...

http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01339&title=Kiss-Me-Deadly-Paranoia-in-the-1950s-part-12012-01-06T14:25:00-06:002012-01-06T14:25:00-06:00

Kiss Me Deadly begins with Cloris Leachman's orgasmic panting as she runs along a highway clad only in a trenchcoat. Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) swerves onto the shoulder to avoid her, testily tells...

http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01338&title=Chistopher-Hitchens-the-hatheist2011-12-16T17:19:00-06:002011-12-16T17:19:00-06:00

How to remember Hitchens? A drunk who made passes at men, a globetrotting narcissist who probably spent more time with his fannish admirers than with his own children, a bridge-burning provocateur who...

http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01337&title=Stephen-Bond-the-contrarian-in-miniature2011-11-19T16:49:00-06:002011-11-19T16:49:00-06:00

For me it gets interesting when contrarians become contrary about their contrarianism–this is the ultimate application of their craft, like when Orthodox Jews figure out elaborate ways to trick...

http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01336&title=A-liberal-arts-proposal2011-10-27T08:03:00-06:002011-10-27T08:03:00-06:00

Barry is attempting to enliven his drifting, annoyed youth base with a giant student loan giveaway. This brings up the long-deferred subject of what really to do about the university education...

http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01335&title=Transgenders-and-mental-illness2011-10-18T11:42:00-06:002011-10-18T11:42:00-06:00

Dr. Keith Ablow went on The O'Reilly Factor (click here) and said something that every conservative should hear about transgenders. He approached the subject in a very intelligent way, and anyone who...

http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01334&title=Steve-Jobs-RIP2011-10-05T21:14:00-06:002011-10-05T21:14:00-06:00

Steve Jobs was a nasty piece of work. He is known to have fleeced his best friend, Wozniak, out of money early in their partnership (i.e. when the money couldn't have been enough to matter). He was an...

http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01333&title=The-top-WHAT-percent2011-09-21T13:39:00-06:002011-09-21T13:39:00-06:00

When people talk about how much the "top n%" pay in taxes or harbor in wealth, do you sometimes wonder to yourself, "how many people is that, and how rich are they?" You can't be blamed for wondering,...

http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01332&title=What-is-so-bad-about-transgenders2011-09-16T10:15:00-06:002011-09-16T10:15:00-06:00

This is not about a tiny, unimportant minority of mentally ill people who plead for acceptance. It is about a complete breakdown in social relations that produces, not members of families, ethnic...

http://www.udolpho.com/weblog/?id=01331&title=YouTubes-TheSkepticalHeretic2011-08-31T17:00:00-06:002011-08-31T17:00:00-06:00

What's great about YouTube is that it puts a face and voice to the awkward, stilted rhetoric of nerds. Their unsmiling retorts, which sound furiously snotty in a blog or forum post, turn into comedy...