New at Reason
Malaysian Christian children's books, illegal fruit vendors, fake drugs that get you in much trouble as real ones—it's all there in the Brickbats from reason's May issue.
Comments to "New at Reason":
This is a good feature, and I hope it continues. I often find that after reading one of the Brickbats on the site, I desperately want a thread in which to vent my newly-found rage.
BakedPenguin | April 30, 2008, 4:09pm | #
Plus, now the old Suck.com illustrator has a job.Naga Sadow | April 30, 2008, 4:11pm | #
Peter Bagge should do illustrations for the the hit&run articles.Mad Max | April 30, 2008, 7:33pm | #
"Two students at Pennsylvania’s Waynesburg Central High School were suspended for 10 days after they made an anti-drug commercial for a TV workshop. The students crushed candy and used it to represent cocaine. That violated a school policy that bans not only drugs but things that look like drugs. At least one student also was told to undergo drug counseling."Context? What's that?
If *Reason* wants to wage a major campaign against "censorship," this would be a good example to cite. "Look, censors can't even distinguish between advocates and opponents of the forbidden doctrine!" It's like that college janitor for a few weeks back who got disciplined because they didn't like the Ku Klux Klan insignia on his anti-Klan history book.
Danny | April 30, 2008, 7:57pm | #
I specifically requested this feature when they had that annoying (but now apparently useful) survey./Where's my cookie?
Danny | April 30, 2008, 7:59pm | #
Strangely, now that it's here it seems kinda boring since I've read all of these before. The thought is there, but the execution needs work.Time for another survey?
the innominate one | April 30, 2008, 8:58pm | #
Danny, I made the same suggestion.I get half of the cookie.
Seriously, though, there is no difference between the Daily Brickbat and 50+% of the blog posts. So why not have Charles Oliver just post his Daily Brickbats in Hit and Run, daily, where we can comment on them?
Michael Foltz | April 30, 2008, 9:04pm | #
Wow. Common sense has left this country.Bob Goodman | April 30, 2008, 9:07pm | #
If *Reason* wants to wage a major campaign against "censorship," this would be a good example to cite. "Look, censors can't even distinguish between advocates and opponents of the forbidden doctrine!"That's OK, censors want to be fair & even handed. The idea of censorship is not to silence one side of a controversy, but the whole subject matter itself.
Danny | April 30, 2008, 9:11pm | #
the innominate one,Seriously, though, there is no difference between the Daily Brickbat and 50+% of the blog posts.
I disagree. The Daily Brickbats are ALL shorter than the shortest blog post. That's what I love about 'em, they're quick and painful.
So why not have Charles Oliver just post his Daily Brickbats in Hit and Run, daily, where we can comment on them?
The only drawback here would be the appearance that the Brickbats are their own feature. I think they should just enable commenting on the Brickbats, supposing it's not that much more trouble than just posting them on H&R.
the innominate one | April 30, 2008, 10:22pm | #
Danny:not different in content is what I meant
you're right about them being their own feature, but they could be dually posted or still linked from the front page in their own special box, independent from the Hit and Run links
Bob Goodman | May 1, 2008, 1:33am | #
I liked them best when Martin Morse Wooster edited them.