Category Archives: Culture

Free Will, Sharing and Facebook

Face­book has been in the news a great deal lately. Early this week, they made some changes to their site design. Yes­ter­day, they announced Face­book Time­lines which is essen­tially a dig­i­tal rep­re­sen­ta­tion of your life that will be avail­able on the web unless you choose for it not to be. Nei­ther of these changes have …

September 24, 2011 – 7:10 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

Book Review — The Great Cholesterol Con

Let’s go on a lit­tle jour­ney. Imag­ine if you will the fol­low­ing sit­u­a­tion. A US phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pany, always on the out­look for ways to improve people’s lives, cre­ates a drug that is excep­tion­ally good at treat­ing patients with chronic and acute pain par­tic­u­larly in cases of arthri­tis. The drug is sub­mit­ted to and approved by …

September 15, 2011 – 10:26 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Book Review, Culture | Comments (1)

What Is The American Way of Life?

Lex­ing­ton Green asks this ques­tion over at Chicago Boyz while pro­vid­ing his own answer. It’s a phrase you often hear but that rarely is explained. I won­der if it isn’t largely per­sonal in nature and pos­si­bly depen­dent on your polit­i­cal pro­cliv­i­ties. How­ever, given the exis­tence of the con­cept, I also feel that there are com­mon …

June 15, 2010 – 8:27 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Comments (0)

Complexity

I sit on the Library Advi­sory Board for the City of Wylie and we had our monthly meet­ing last night. At one point in the dis­cus­sions, it came up that a rel­a­tively minor tech­ni­cal prob­lem had hap­pened at the library and that it had taken almost a week to fix. In dis­cussing this event, sev­eral …

April 13, 2010 – 4:36 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Comments (2)

Bedroom Farce Review

K and I went to see Bed­room Farce last night play­ing at The­atre Three in Dal­las. It’s writ­ten by Alan Ayck­bourn, a cel­e­brated con­tem­po­rary British play­wright. The The­atre Three stag­ing is very well done and all actors seem to be well-cast. The story cen­ters around 4 cou­ples play­ing out pieces of the play in their …

March 13, 2010 – 6:33 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Review Of Amy’s View At Theatre Three

As part of our ongo­ing effort to seem cool, trendy and urbane, the mis­sus and I went to see Amy’s View at The­atre Three last night as part of our sea­son ticket pack­age there. Over­all, the show was a good one with some solid char­ac­ter por­tray­als by Con­nie Coit and Danielle Pickard. Amy’s View is …

January 16, 2010 – 3:37 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Suing People To Solve Your Problems

The story: A pri­vate swim club kicks out a day care group pos­si­bly because of over­crowd­ing, pos­si­bly because of racism. Media fire storm brews. Said pri­vate swim club rein­vites day care group. Day care group refuses say­ing “chil­dren are scarred” and “The children’s best inter­ests are not being served.” Day care intends to sue within …

July 14, 2009 – 10:27 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture, National Issues | Comments (18)

Sentences Worth Pondering

“The plot behind the endlessly-long series of explo­sions that Megan Fox’s rack is forced to endure is impos­si­ble to relate or under­stand.” From Choire Sicha at The Awl, writ­ing a review dig­i­tal flog­ging of the new Trans­form­ers movie. Good times. I can’t pos­si­bly do jus­tice to the whole review so you should just go read …

June 29, 2009 – 7:35 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Tagged , | Comments (2)

The King Of Pop, Popped

Michael Jack­son is dead. Which is strange because if there was ever a strange, girl-like pop star that I thought would live for­ever it would be him. He was a musi­cal genius for 15–20 years and then an eccen­tric pedophile for another 15 or so. Quite a career. From the CNN arti­cle, Rev­erend Al Sharp­ton: …

June 25, 2009 – 6:46 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture | Comments (1)

Unintended Consequences of Roe v. Wade

Conor at The Amer­i­can Scene has a post up try­ing to clar­ify this Ross Douthat edi­to­r­ial. They are both inter­est­ing reads. I find that any dis­cus­sion of abor­tion, much like that of text edi­tors (VIM Roolz!) and of reli­gion, is dom­i­nated in large part by two very vir­u­lent, angry con­stituen­cies who typ­i­cally try to yell …

June 11, 2009 – 6:42 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Culture, National Issues | Comments (3)