I Can Haz Baggages!
Sep. 29th, 2015 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribI made it back to Chicago Sunday night, but my checked bag didn't. Fortunately, there was nothing I needed in said bag, so it was more of an annoyance than a problem. Well, Southwest eventually cracked the code and found the bag, and I woke up this morning to find it on my doorstep. Yeah! To celebrate, have a couple of links.
1) An interesting article by Megan McArdle on what Republicans (should) learn from losing Boehner. Money quote: Imagine that you tried negotiating for a car by announcing that you intended to pay no more than $2,400 for a fully-loaded new truck. Would this improve your bargaining position? Of course not; the salesman would decide that you were wasting his time, and go find another customer.
2) The novel Ancillary Justice has been bashed vigorously by conservatives on the grounds that it promotes lack of gender distinctions. But as this fellow points out, the people in the novel doing the no-gender thing are the bad guys! It's like arguing that Star Wars promotes chocking people you disagree with.
1) An interesting article by Megan McArdle on what Republicans (should) learn from losing Boehner. Money quote: Imagine that you tried negotiating for a car by announcing that you intended to pay no more than $2,400 for a fully-loaded new truck. Would this improve your bargaining position? Of course not; the salesman would decide that you were wasting his time, and go find another customer.
2) The novel Ancillary Justice has been bashed vigorously by conservatives on the grounds that it promotes lack of gender distinctions. But as this fellow points out, the people in the novel doing the no-gender thing are the bad guys! It's like arguing that Star Wars promotes chocking people you disagree with.
