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Friday, May 29, 2009

R.I.P., E.G.G.

Andrew Rilstone puts it better than I ever could. One life, furnished in early Gygax.
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Above the Fold (Academic Blogs) (25)

  • American Prospect, The
  • Andrew Sullivan
  • Becker-Posner Blog
  • Brad DeLong
  • Crooked Timber
  • Daily Kos
  • Daniel Drezner
  • David Friedman
  • EconLog
  • Freakonomics
  • Greg Mankiw
  • Hit & Run (Reason Magazine)
  • Instapundit
  • Jacob T. Levy (Political Theory and/or Philosophy)
  • James Fallows
  • Jesse Walker
  • Julian Sanchez
  • Kausfiles
  • Lawrence Lessig
  • Marginal Revolution
  • Matthew Yglesias
  • Mungowit's End
  • Overcoming Bias
  • Robert Reich
  • University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
  • Volokh Conspiracy

All Politics Is Local (18)

  • DNC Strips Florida of Delegates
  • Durham-in-Wonderland
  • Florida Masochist
  • Florida Tax Proposals on the Table (Sun-Sentinel)
  • Fort Lauderdale's $250,000 Public Toilet
  • Georgia City Shows Florida How To Cut Costs
  • Get On Your Soapbox
  • In Our Hands: Left or Right?
  • It's Time for State to Pay Its Debts to Paralyzed Teen
  • John McCain: Prisoner of Conscience
  • Julie Amero Legal Defense Blog
  • Liestoppers
  • Little Outrage Over Swollen Local Budgets
  • Negative-Sum Politics
  • OnTheIssues.org
  • Property Tax Plan
  • Prosecutors Seek OK to Falsify Court Records
  • Rack-and-Roll (Felony Corruption in Manassas, VA)
  • She's No Fundamentalist: Ayaan Hirsi Ali (by Chris Hitchens)

Radical Critiques of Literature and Society (13)

  • Blue vs. Green Science
  • Capitalist theory and the subtextual paradigm of context
  • Course Evaluations for Professor Socrates
  • Cultural Capital
  • Feminist Pedagogy in Teaching General Education Mathematics: Creating the Riskable Classroom
  • Leggo My Lego: Deconstructing Private Property in Public (State) Schoolrooms
  • Liberation Is At Hand!
  • Lowdown Conservative Academia Shutout Blues
  • Non-Hierarchical, Non-Patriarchial Pregnancy
  • Postmodernism Generator
  • The Truth About Truth: De-Confusing and Re-Constructing the Postmodern World
  • Trading Up With Gilgamesh
  • Transgressing the Boundaries: Deconstructing Monolithic, Hierarchial Schooling
  • Transgressing the Boundaries: Education and Classism
  • Transgressing the Boundaries: Isn't it Empowering to be a Ho and do Boys' Bidding?
  • Transgressing the Boundaries: Sex (Circa 2006)
  • Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Non-Hierarchical Interpretation of Mathematics

Transhumanism and Cyborg Theory (18)

  • Accelerating Future
  • Anders Sandberg
  • Anton Sherwood
  • Beyond the Beyond (Bruce Sterling)
  • Bruce Baugh
  • Chaos Manor (Jerry Pournelle)
  • Charles Stross
  • Cyborg Democracy
  • David Brin
  • Dynamist (Virginia Postres)
  • Early Days of a Better Nation, The (Ken MacLeod)*
  • Extended Phenotype
  • Ornery American (Orson Scott Card)
  • PaleoFuture
  • Prince of Cairo (Kenneth Hite)
  • Sea Wasp
  • Telepocalypse

The Personal is the Political (26)

  • "We Answer to the Name of Liberals"
  • 20 Questions (for Aspiring Presidential Candidates)
  • Basic Income Guarantee Network
  • Charity Navigator
  • David Friedman
  • Education
  • Enhanced Precision Political Quiz...in 2D
  • F.I.R.E. (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education)
  • Global Wealth Calculator
  • iGive.com
  • Jericho (TV Series)
  • Joe's Goals
  • Libertarian Elected Officials
  • Libertarian Purity Test
  • Libertarians to Statists: Put Up or Shut Up
  • Philosophy Now
  • Red State Diaries
  • Republican Study Committee
  • Right Slight
  • Strange Maps
  • Terrapass (Offsets)
  • Terror Storm
  • The Protocols of Science Fiction
  • The Soul of the New Machine: My Double, Grover Norquist
  • Third Party Watch
  • Trouble in Libertopia*
  • World Hunger Fair Share

International Relations (11)

  • Beinart: Iraq: Real vs. Fake Debates
  • Beinart: Stay in Iraq if Shiites Cooperate, Leave If They Don't
  • Niall Ferguson: Bribe the Insurgents and Tribal Sheiks
  • Rauch: Let Bush Hang Himself with the Surge
  • Reyes to the Bottom (Testing the Intelligence of Our Intelligence Officials)
  • Seoul Mates: Why the US Should Abandon South Korea
  • Short on Intelligence
  • TNR: Crush the Sunnis to Show Terrorism Doesn't Pay
  • TNR: Save Whomever We Can: Give Innocent Iraqi Victims Refuge in the US
  • TNR: The Coming Hell in Iraq for America's Friends

Blogroll (*asterisk* indicates a site that I very seldom agree with)

  • A Chronicle of Liberal Hypocrisy
  • Adventures in Economics (James D. Miller)
  • Agitator, The
  • Agoraphilia
  • Alas! A Blog
  • Alphecca
  • American Culture (S. T. Karnick)
  • Amor Mundi (Dale Carrico)*
  • Andrew Hickey*
  • Andrew Rilstone
  • Angry Bear
  • Art and Science of Everything, The
  • Asking the Wrong Question
  • Asymmetrical Information (Jane Galt)
  • Attempts*
  • Australian Libertarian Society
  • Austrian Economists
  • Austro-Athenian Empire
  • Barely a Blog (Ilana Mercer)
  • Biased BBC
  • Bilious Young Fogey
  • Bill Boushka
  • Black Velvet Bruce Li
  • Bruce Baugh's Live Journal
  • Cafe Hayek (Russ Roberts)
  • Caffeinated Normality/Fiendish Proselytizing (Shemeska)
  • Carnival of GRADual Progress, The
  • Cato @ Liberty
  • Charlotte Gore ("Libertarian LibDem")
  • Christian Hate? (Christian Aid Watch)
  • Classical Values
  • D. Herbert (fantastic at pointing out hypocrisy!)
  • Daryl Herbert
  • David Brin
  • David Seah
  • Democracy in America
  • Downsize DC
  • Dr Sanity
  • Dr. Helen
  • Economist's View
  • Encyclopedia FlavorDavica
  • EnglishSpace
  • Fanboy Rampage (Obsolete)
  • Fareed Zakaria
  • Field Notes from an Evolutionary Psychologist
  • Free Keith Henson
  • Freedom Democrats
  • Fumbling Towards Geekdom
  • GeekPress (Technology News)
  • Gene Expression
  • GioBlog
  • GioBlog
  • God's Politics (James Wallis and Friends)
  • Google News
  • Humanitarian, The*
  • I'm Playing Chicken With A Kid Called Robin!
  • Ideoblog
  • Immodest Proposals
  • In the Pipeline
  • Iron Shrink
  • Jeff Weintraub
  • Jesse Walker
  • John & Belle
  • John R. Lott, Jr.
  • Juan Cole*
  • Juitsui-Generis
  • Jumping to Conclusions (David Nieporent)
  • Kevin Maroney
  • Knight in Dragonland
  • Knowledge Problem
  • Langer's Liberty Blog
  • Leave Us Alone!
  • Left Independent*
  • Leiter Reports*
  • LewRockwell
  • Making Light*
  • Marginal Utility*
  • Market Based Management
  • Michael's Blog
  • Mike Hammock
  • Mike Huben*
  • Modestly Yours (Wendy Shalit)
  • Mr Grumpy
  • Mumpsimus
  • My Stupid Dog
  • Natalie Solent
  • Neil Gaiman
  • NeoCenturions
  • Newmark's Door
  • normblog
  • North Korean Economy Watch
  • Outrageous Malfunction
  • Overlawyered
  • OxBlog
  • PeaceMaker
  • Perpetual Three-Dot Column (Jesse Walker)
  • PeterDavid.net
  • Point of Law
  • Polite Dissent
  • Political Insider
  • Political Theory Daily Review
  • Porkbusters!
  • Positive Liberty
  • Professor Bainbridge
  • Radical Traditions
  • Real Clear Politics
  • Register, The
  • Rick Sincere (Gay, Conservative Libertarian Arts/Theater Critic)
  • RiskProf
  • Samizdata
  • Schrumpfkopf Diaries
  • Skeptical Optimist (warning: huge blog, takes forever to load!)
  • Skin Deep
  • Steve Pavlina
  • Strategy Page
  • Strike the Root
  • Tammy Bruce
  • Terra Rossa
  • Theoria*
  • Third Rail: Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security
  • Todd Seavey
  • Total Drek
  • Trout in the Milk
  • Undercover Black Man
  • Unqualified Offerings
  • Victor Davis Hanson's "Private Papers"
  • Viscus*
  • Welcome to Pottersville*
  • What's Alan Watching?
  • Works and Days (Victor Davis Hanson)
  • XXL
  • Y Files, The (Cathy Young)
  • Yazadjal.com
  • Yudhishthira's Dice

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