A Thinking Reed

  • What’s a health care exchange?

    This is a helpful article.

  • Maddening

    As someone who’s only half-way through the first season of Mad Men on DVD, it’s hard to avoid all those juicy articles on season 3 that are currently everywhere.

  • Creaturely Theology

    Anyone out there familiar with the anthology Creaturely Theology: God, Humans, and Other Animals edited by Celia Dean-Drummond and David Clough? I’m intrigued, but can’t seem to find much information about it online, and the cost is a bit prohibitive for buying sight unseen.

  • Still the King

    I agree with this review–the Elvis 1969 Memphis sessions really do represent the King at the height of his powers. The disc is one of my go-to Elvis albums (along with the Sun Sessions and ’56). While the version I have is a previous release, I imagine this new remastered version is well worth the…

  • The trouble with “humanitarian advocacy”

    Wow, this is a pretty damning post on the Save Darfur Coalition by Conor Foley, an international human rights worker and author of The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism Went to War: for the last five years the Save Darfur coalition has been pumping out a message about an ongoing genocide which is essentially untrue.…

  • Against threat inflation

    Stephen Walt and Matthew Yglesias both have smart posts on looking at climate change through a national security lens. Possibly one of the worst outcomes of our failure to address climate change (and other attendant issues like peak oil) would be to lock ourselves into a zero-sum, conflict-based position with the rest of the world.…

  • Genius physicist for socialized medicine

    Just sayin’.

  • Acknowledging disagreement is not relativism

    The website of Lutheran Forum has become, for better or worse, all ELCA sex talk all the time. In this post, Sarah Wilson distinguishes two kinds of arguments that proponents of changing existing policy are making: One argument is simply this: homosexual activity is not a sin. That is, as long as it follows other…

  • Green beer – and it’s not even St. Paddy’s day

    Top 8 Green U.S. Breweries I haven’t even tried most of these, though I am a fan of Brooklyn Brewery. (link via my buddy Chris)

  • Summer movie critic

    Maybe it’s the delayed summer heat forcing us indoors, but my wife and I have recently seen two first-run movies right after they opened, a rarity for us. I enjoyed Judd Apatow’s Funny People more than I thought I would and more than his other two flicks. Yes, it’s big, sprawling and doesn’t entirely hang…