http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ Better Than You Think en Vox Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:00:06 -0500 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/it-has-run-its-course.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Scio, Scio) http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/it-has-run-its-course.html?_c=feed-rss http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/it-has-run-its-course.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:00:06 -0500 So this is farewell, of a sort. I've chosen to stop posting here regularly. It's not because of any person or persons, nothing so trite. It's just time for a change, to paraphrase the likely new president. It's been nearly 23 months, and in ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d10a7781498bfa010980b36eee000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> goodbye http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/peggy-noonan-on-conservatism.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Scio, Scio) http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/peggy-noonan-on-conservatism.html?_c=feed-rss http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/peggy-noonan-on-conservatism.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:28:06 -0500 Lopez: What is a conservative? Noonan: Thank you for asking. I think this is something we should talk about more, and something I would urge NR to address with a greater force or breadth. 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I may upload pictures if I don't look too ridiculous. Last year I went as a zombie, and put together an intense gore-fest of a costume. ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/happy-halloween.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d10a7781498bfa0109d0653f4b000e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> halloween http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/6a00d10a7781498bfa010981470a50000d.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Scio, Scio) http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/6a00d10a7781498bfa010981470a50000d.html?_c=feed-rss http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/6a00d10a7781498bfa010981470a50000d.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:52:06 -0400 <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d10a7781498bfa010981470a50000d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/my-final-thoughts-on-this-election.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Scio, Scio) http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/my-final-thoughts-on-this-election.html?_c=feed-rss http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/my-final-thoughts-on-this-election.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:32:48 -0400 I'm rapidly running out of ways to criticize Barack Obama. Over the past two years, I've been lamenting at various times (and in no particular order): Obama's inexperience, questionable associations, stated policy goals, inept assessments of wor... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/my-final-thoughts-on-this-election.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d10a7781498bfa00fad6b882d20005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> conservative politics liberal lame political socialism election 2008 news & politics obama http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/i-must-acquire-fable-ii.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Scio, Scio) http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/i-must-acquire-fable-ii.html?_c=feed-rss http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/i-must-acquire-fable-ii.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:51:52 -0400 I like to think of myself as fairly grown-up. I can easily turn down the childish pleasures in which many of my contemporaries (or, less grandly, my "age-group") seem to lose themselves so readily. But there are certain things that I find I mu... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/i-must-acquire-fable-ii.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d10a7781498bfa00fa96a5b4d00003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> video games fable http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/this-day-in-potentially-damning-yet-utterly-ignored-obama-news.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Scio, Scio) http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/this-day-in-potentially-damning-yet-utterly-ignored-obama-news.html?_c=feed-rss http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/this-day-in-potentially-damning-yet-utterly-ignored-obama-news.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:01:53 -0400 So, today the big focus is on how you can make fake donations to the Obama site that still take money from your account. As in: So I went to the Obama website this afternoon and clicked on the "Donate" button. I used my real MasterCard number... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/this-day-in-potentially-damning-yet-utterly-ignored-obama-news.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d10a7781498bfa00fad6b71bb30005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> president money crime liberal election constitution 2008 fraud news & politics obama donations http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/piracy-report-1008.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Scio, Scio) http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/piracy-report-1008.html?_c=feed-rss http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/piracy-report-1008.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:25:44 -0400 Some of you may have seen the news recently that Blackwater is putting together a crew to act as escort for ships in the Gulf of Aden. This is an encouraging development, as efforts by regional and US forces to counter the pirates have been only... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/piracy-report-1008.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d10a7781498bfa0100a805dfed000e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> pirate http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/greens-and-red-ink.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Scio, Scio) http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/greens-and-red-ink.html?_c=feed-rss http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/greens-and-red-ink.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:12:59 -0400 So this little Greenie shop closed in my city, and it somehow made the news. I am consumed with spite for the Greens, not much of it undeserved. I trace this spite to the incident in which I, refusing to give my unqualified support to the idea ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/greens-and-red-ink.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d10a7781498bfa00fa96a567780003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> business conservative politics liberal political global warming environment greenies hippies climate change fascism news & politics http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/obama-and-tax-cuts.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Scio, Scio) http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/obama-and-tax-cuts.html?_c=feed-rss http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/obama-and-tax-cuts.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:56:42 -0400 Since the topic has been coming up lately, I submit to you this piece. I found it reinforces my own views. Since I am not interested in making a substantial post of my own, you must subsist on my regurgitations. How's that for imagery? Obama’... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://mindyourmanners.vox.com/library/post/obama-and-tax-cuts.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d10a7781498bfa00fae8e8c6bc000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> conservative politics liberal political taxes obama