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WBH Bi-monthly Digest 2024-04-19: Bring Back the Assholes

WBH Bi-monthly Digest 2024-04-19: Bring Back the Assholes

A long post from M. C. A. Hogarth on how well the Princess and the Frog holds up fifteen years later. The Princess and the Frog isn't a great fit for the Heroine's Journey, which is good, since checkbox-style scripts or plots are the death of

The Wise of Heart Book Review

The Wise of Heart Book Review

He that troubleth his owne house, shall inherite the wind: and the foole shall be servant to the wise of heart. Proverbs 11:29 Hans G. Schantz's The Wise of Heart is a bold foray into one of the most controversial topics in contemporary America: transgenderism. It is

Alan Dean Foster is in a Copyright Dispute with Disney

#DearMickey #DisneyMustPay According to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, author Alan Dean Foster is in a copyright dispute with Disney. Disney seems to be making the rather bold claim that they only purchased the rights to distribute the works in the Star Wars universe, not the liability

The Long View 2007-10-17: Tolerated Use; Cold Civil War; Counterknowledge; Electoral Voting by District

John J. Reilly here proposed a more formal solution to the current unsatisfactory state of copyright law: I did a little research before I uploaded my single foray into fan fiction, The Gray Havens, which is an alternative ending for the Tolkien trilogy. My conclusion was that I could make

Senator Warren's Office of Drug Manufacturing

My latest article published by Ordinary Times is now live, Senator Warren’s Office of Drug Manufacturing. I analyze and comment on the Senator’s proposal for the federal government to manufacture generic drugs. Read and comment on it at Ordinary Times.

The Long View 2005-03-08: Very Bad Things

I hadn't remembered this term, but John brings up 'debt strikes' here. This is apparently a thing, but it is a thing that hasn't quite caught on yet. John is right that this would have bad consequences on the financial system if it ever

Linkfest 2017-04-21

* How Is An Emergency Room Like A Monkey Wrench? Depending on you do the accounting, emergency rooms aren't the most expensive way to get care. * LIBERALISM'S FUTURE If you combine this essay from 2016 by Rusty Reno, editor of First Things, with this 2017 article by