you can’t be a pacifist if you haven’t got a war to fight
Kyle Cupp has this to say about my professed culture-war pacifism:
Monthly Archive: April 2009
Abu-Jamal and the Costs of Reflexive Anti-Leftism
In the interests of showing that I will disagree as loudly with my friends as with my foes…. Mark invokes what has become a stand-in for every “loony left” cliche there is, the Mumia...
the local school district today
…is laying off all the school psychologists, school counselors, art teachers, music teachers, theatre teachers, P.E. teachers, and many of its new teachers not out of the “probationary” period yet – a total cut...
The Practical Art of Possible Interests
Señor Payne a few posts down shrewdly argues that political hyper-partisanship is a outgrowth of laziness. He documents lo the many ways this is the case. A better approach in his mind is the...
It strikes me…
…that these “Tea Parties” are nothing more than GOP leftover rallies from a population still deeply absorbed in its own denialism over the loss of the Presidency to a Democrat.
The Futility of Protesting
Andrew Sullivan has been taking flak from movement conservatives (what else is new?) for calling the Tea Party protests nothing more than childish “temper tantrums.” He has repeatedly pointed out the hypocrisy of these...
pacifism and the culture wars
“Saving” marriage obviously means objecting to gay-marriage. But what does this have to do with abortion? Can someone please explain to me what on earth King means? Seriously, I have no idea. ~ Alex...
Sunday Poem Series, on Easter
from Poems of the Naming of Places by William Wordsworth …we advanc’d Along the indented shore; when suddenly, Through a thin veil of glittering haze, we saw Before us on a point of jutting...
Cute, but…
Nice try… Then we have to rip our eyes away from the inferior distractions like the League of Ordinary Milquetoasts and muster at the Tea Party for some principled, Constitutional opposition. I’m sorry, but...
Why Being a Judge Is Hard
First, since today is Good Friday, let me apoloize upfront for the disturbing nature of the case around which this post is built. Unfortunately, it serves as a compelling follow-up to the enjoyable and...
A Meditation for Good Friday
The strangest (and perhaps sickest it could be argued) thing we Christians say is that this day is good. Why? What sense does it make to call a day in which you remember how...
adventures in invective
“What leaves me with a queasy feeling, though, is the growing sense that Obama is willing to denigrate America in order to boost his own personal popularity in other countries. As President, Obama has...
A (mostly) Musical Maundy Thursday Round-up
A few songs and some links to usher in the Easter Triduum….
even this ship needs steering
Via Andrew, Felix Salmon pokes holes in a list of necessary reforms from Nassim Taleb: Taleb’s first principle is that “nothing should ever become too big to fail”. But all economies have too-big-to-fail institutions;...
Say Good-bye to your local Farmer’s Market
This reminds me of the ridiculous measures taken after the lead scare. Not good news, to be sure. Funny how we got along just fine without any of these massive outbreaks of food-contamination until...
Why He’s Thoreau and You’re Not
The veal-chewing fizzicist manages to mock no fewer than 5 conspiracy theories in two sentences.
Faith and modernity
Commenter Tim A had this to say about some of my arguments the other day regarding Leviticus and theology: Come back in a year or two when you’re ready to expound on important matters...
How Movement Conservatives Are Killing Capitalism
When you falsely complain that every single thing your opponents try to do is socialism and absurdly hold your bloviating, unpopular selves up as bastions of capitalism, you probably shouldn’t be surprised when people...
