Mushroom Kingdom weirdness
I’m pretty curious, naturally, and I have some friends who (like myself) enjoy inflicting psychic distress on each other to generate a few laughs and demonstrate affection. So I’ve had a lot of links...
Monthly Archive: February 2009
Winning the War Fought in the Wrong Location (While Still Losing the Peace)
Freddie thinks that those (like Reihan) who are nervous about new so-called modest (or lowered) expectations should be. Br. F-reddie also raises an question of feasibility of non-lowered expectations given Afghan history. (Also check...
God keep our land…
I lived in Vancouver, BC for two years and honeymooned there years later, but the extent of my knowledge in regards to Canada is limited mainly to such trivial (yet ironically important) matters as...
Never Go In Against A Libertarian When Phallacy Is On The Line
This is a Public Service Announcement: if you are really intent on exposing political enemies as liars, do not UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES go after someone who has made a career doing exactly that. Hilarity...
modesty in Afghanistan
I think Reihan is right to be distressed, given his inclinations for Afghanistan, by the perceptible shift in expectations for the country. And he’s right to note that it’s a major shift with some...
A Gay Marriage Solution Whose Time May Soon Be Upon Us
by Kyle Moore This may come as a surprise, but I’m not exactly prone to confrontation. While it would not be an overstatement to describe me as a partisan, I don’t really enjoy the...
Economic Interventionism
Mark raises an interesting point: Finally, I’d put an end to the concept of economic or diplomatic sanctions as a meaningful manner of achieving most diplomatic ends (the exception being targeted sanctions solely intended to...
I, troll
Alan Jacobs has some thoughts on the virtues and vices of blogging, vis a vis the seemingly endless “is religious belief rational” merry-go-round. He says As everyone knows, the less complex and nuanced the...
Getting Our Priorities in Order
Responding to E.D.’s post last week, Roque Nuevo wrote: “the world generally” agrees that national sovereignty, pluralism, respect for individual rights are also “good for the world generally.” This is absolutely a fair point,...
Snow in Arizona
I think we’re at eight inches so far, with another foot expected today, and Lord knows how much more after that. I remember when we first planned to move to Arizona, everyone I spoke...
Stimulation After (Economic) Climax
I see Mssr. J. Schwenkler linked to and posted some of a recent Brian Beutler-Megan McArdle Bloggingheads on the stimulus bill. McArdle lays out her own priorities for a stimulus bill. Her basic argument...
A poem for Sunday
The Fall of Rome by W.H. Auden The piers are pummelled by the waves; In a lonely field the rain Lashes an abandoned train; Outlaws fill the mountain caves. Fantastic grow the evening gowns;...
The Humanitarian Empire
Scott wonders again whether there isn’t a place for humanitarian intervention, or a sort of anti-imperialist version, and asks if perhaps the problem is not so much the idea behind such a foreign policy,...
Opportunity, Society, and the Role of the State
A few thoughts on Freddie’s post below. First, I think $10/hour is a pretty reasonable wage for a clerk at Wal*Mart. It’s not exactly the sort of job we’d expect people to make very...
calling bullshit on bullshit
Andrew links approvingly to another frivolous experiment that seeks to show that bootstrapping rhetoric isn’t dead, and that if you are hard-working and smart, you can rise up and overcome, etc. etc., into the...
“All I want… to kno-ow! All I want!”
lyrics feature adult language The Misfits, to me, are genius, and I don’t know why they don’t get more credit as essential pop-punk forefathers. So many great, two-minute punk rock songs, major-key and ecstatic....
Madrick on Case for Big Gov’t
I found this an extremely thought provoking Bloggingheads. I thought some of the League and our readers might as well. Jeff Madrick discusses with Jim Pinkerton his new book The Case for Big Government....
the grad trap
John Schwenkler has some wise words about the college debt trap. As I said in the comments at his blog, I think that there are some pieces missing from that version of the story,...
Intervening into the Unknown/The Unknown Intervening into US
To recap a bit where we are in this discussion. So I would say Freddie and ED (to a degree) subscribe roughly to what I call the Radiohead Theory of Foreign Policy: i.e. the...
