Initial Thoughts on the Memos
I’ve had time to give the Bybee memo a good read, and I’ve gotten pretty far into the first Bradbury memo. First, let me say that I think my position on the techniques stated...
Daily Archive: April 17, 2009
Retiring from the League…
…taking up residence to the libertarian paradise that is Somalia. I’ve had a few liberals tell me I ought to go there. I could use a change of scenery anyway. H/T to the commenter...
Friday Night Jukebox
Customarily, these Friday Night Jukebox posts come with some ruminations about the musician or music in question. But I’m afraid the same real-life conditions that compel me to post these videos leave me able...
truth and consequences
“Disclosure of the techniques is likely to be met by faux outrage, and is perfectly packaged for media consumption. It will also incur the utter contempt of our enemies. Somehow, it seems unlikely that...
Intellectual Insecurity
To follow-up briefly on the recent discussion regarding intramural conservative debate, there’s an odd tendency among certain mainstream conservatives to unduly concern themselves with enforcing intellectual orthodoxy. Case in point is this hysterical blog...
Creating Apathy by Fighting Apathy
Scott (and, by implication, Freddie) has put together a challenging retort to my arguments that most large-scale political protests are inevitably undermined by the unpreventable introduction of irrelevant issues into the protest and are thus...
