Thru Andrew, the latest attempt to supply the Twitter phenomenon (and Twitter, along the way) with meaning: As the physical world takes on more of the characteristics of a simulation, we seek reality in the simulated world. At least there we can be confident that the simulation is real. At least . . . . Continue Reading »
Matt Labash has a hilarious send-up of Facebook (on which I am not) in the latest issue of the Weekly Standard . It’s a massive target: “Facebook had just added its 150-millionth member and since last August is signing up 374,000 people each day. It has achieved absolute critical mass, . . . . Continue Reading »
Maggie Jackson ( Distracted ) writes, “One yearlong study found that workers not only switch tasks every three minutes during their workday but that nearly half the time they interrupt themselves.” And this: “Nearly a third of fourteen- to twenty-one-year olds juggle five to eight . . . . Continue Reading »
Wendy’s life borders on chaos. What could make her life easier? A team of experts in colorful blouses with good hair, of course — according to Real Simple magazine’s new reality TV show. By Laura Vanderkam . An American town is living in a past that isn’t even real . The . . . . Continue Reading »
Justin Hart’s daughter goes to her first Mormon Saturday Night Dance . Both father and daughter leave with a smile on their faces. The coke-fueled nights of Hollywood were his normative experience; the mundane conventions of suburban Cleveland feel exotic to him. Joe Eszterhas, however, is . . . . Continue Reading »
Nicola Karras’ argument for conservatism leaves traditional partisan rhetoric in the dust: "The more we depend on government, the less connection we have with one another." Her graceful essay is not to be missed. Ladyblog’s Manblogger: Your broken moral compass that always . . . . Continue Reading »
Alan Jacobs : Stikkin’ it to ya . Apart from being self-satisfied and intellectually shallow , Linda Hirshman misses the real source of inequality between the sexes and adheres to a myopic, one-dimensional view of human flourishing, making it impossible for Hirshman to understand how any . . . . Continue Reading »
Every once in a while — or maybe often — it’s worth a reality check to see if theory matches up to practice. Of course those of us inclined to note that being precedes consciousness (or practice precedes reason) are inclined to pay attention to what’s going on in the real . . . . Continue Reading »
Justin "Sandbox" Hart has written a diary accusing me and my fellow PoMoConers of hanging out in cloud-cuckoo land and thinking when we should be, like, leading GOTV efforts and . . . stuff. This makes complete sense, because as we all know the modern conservative movement is totally . . . . Continue Reading »
Mornin’, friends and fans. It’s been a scary long time of silence at Postmodern Conservative. But as you can tell . . . we’ve relaunched. Bigger. Better. Stronger. Not necessarily faster in any way . . . because surely you’ll be spending a lot more time hanging . . . . Continue Reading »
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