Weekend Reading: Good Blogs Edition
| Posted in Weekend Reading | Posted on 03-05-2009
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Here are five really high quality blogs I’ve found myself reading lately. What blogs do you guys suggest?
Here are five really high quality blogs I’ve found myself reading lately. What blogs do you guys suggest?
When I say philosophy edition I mean political philosophy and when I say political philosophy I mean readings on Libertarianism. I did some reading this weekend to try to get my mind going. Some days I really miss having serious academic discussions. These days my life consists of debates about tuxedo t-shirts and phone calls about paying dues.
*This one is thrown in because I read it and it is vaguely related.
My thoughts on Watchmen: Very enjoyable film, no way to include everything from the graphic novel. Snyder did his best, definitely worth seeing, even if you don’t know anything about it. If you aren’t familiar with Watchmen don’t expect non-stop action. Be prepared for a long deep look into human nature. The following links contain spoilers, so unless you’ve read the graphic novel tread lightly.
If you read the recent traffic report, you saw that there are some major gaps in popularity among the hosted blogs. Hopefully this will be a good resource for the current hosted blogs or anyone else thinking about starting one.
If you haven’t gotten on the twitter band wagon yet, what are you waiting for?
*Although it is fun and flashy, I think this game fundamentally misses the point about what is wrong with the economy and our entire view of the role of government.
I have a friend who always says movies are books for the illiterate. There were a ton of good YouTube videos that I saw this week, here are some of the best.