Scene: In a parking lot, a few hours after renting a car for the week (much nicer than my regular car).
Teeny Tech: The car’s headlights turn off by themselves about 30 seconds after you move away from the car.
Tiny Norm: If you see someone’s left their lights on, you tell them.
Teeny Tech meets Tiny Norm:
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The ranks of scholar-bloggers are filled with lawyers, historians, economists and political scientists, but sociologists are thin on the ground. I didn’t know of any besides myself and Eszter until this week, when I found Amitai Etzioni’s new blog. He’s a considerably more influential sociologist than me. As it happens, this week I also got […]
While you munch on your freedom fries, consider what is going on inside the mind of Steven DenBeste. Here he is wondering about the French:
De facto they’re allied with Saddam even if there’s no publicly-declared treaty or agreement; so will they be willing to intervene militarily? Will they smuggle some sort of weaponry in? Or […]
I got the same email from Nick, the Ranting Rationalist, as Matt Yglesias did. Nick proudly proclaims a commitment to “rational discourse” and says he is “similarly hopeful that you liberal, subjectivist, collectivist simpletons are roundly agitated and annoyed” by his unflinching approach.
Matt raises some philosophical questions for this kind of view. Sociological ones […]
It’s my birthday. I’m 30. There’s obviously been some mistake, as I was planning on being in my late 20s for quite a bit longer. From now on, this blog will focus increasingly on topics such as advances in Zimmer frame technology, the need to save Social Security and extended reflections on how the world […]
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