SI’s Peter King Comes Out of the Cannabis Closet
Well, not quite. But this is a heartening statement:
Monthly Archive: April 2009
Plain Wrong
Governor Mark Sanford in The American Conservative, March 2009 (emphasis mine): He also deviates from the Republican line on foreign policy. In Congress, he opposed Clinton’s intervention in Kosovo. And he was one of...
Goldberg Variations
Down-blog, Freddie takes a few shots at Jeffrey Goldberg: This is like an awful lot of other things that Goldberg is perpetually aggrieved about. The way that he threads the needle between holding views...
How Culture Warriors View the Judiciary…
This is an adaptation of a classic Tim Sandefur post written about five years while he was in the process of shredding conservatives in a bit of a blawgospheric battle over Lawrence v Texas,...
Sunday Poem series
The Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Below the thunders of the upper deep; Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee About his shadowy...
The Limits of Secularization
Secularization is part of a long trend toward moral liberalization. That the Iowa Supreme Court would unanimously rule prohibition of gay marriage illegal when a decade ago this would have seemed impossible is just...
the Goldberg conundrum
Peter Suderman considers Ari Roth vs. Jeffrey Goldberg. Isn’t Goldberg an almost ludicrously enthusiastic booster for the Sopranos? I know– the point of the Sopranos isn’t that the characters are people you want to...
The notion of judicial activism.
My name’s on the sidebar now, so I feel obligated to offer a brief response to E.D.’s post on judicial activism. E.D. writes: “The whole notion of ‘activist judges’ is essentially a ruse.” Perhaps...
Working with what we’ve got…part II
Daniel Larison picks up arguably one of my most awkwardly worded sentences in one of my most awkwardly written posts and then writes: It’s true that idealism would be quite heavily burdened by idealism,...
The remakes continue…
…this time with a brand new Masters of the Universe. That’s right. He-Man is back…
It’s just those damned activist judges again, making trouble for the rest of us….
“The lawless judicial attack on traditional marriage and on representative government continues.” ~ Ed Whelan @ NRO writing on Friday’s landmark decision by the Iowa Supreme Court to lift that State’s ban on gay...
Quote for the Day (April 4th)
“But for the record, I don’t think white people have to answer for Glenn Beck. It was a joke.” –-Ta-Nehisi Coates Thank God for that or we honkeys would be straight f–ed.
Multi-generational living…
Freddie informs us that upwards of 66% of college grads intend to move back in with their parents due to the current economy and (lack of a) job market. Man is it good to...
Friday Night Jukebox, DIY Edition
As a fellow part-time hipster, I found a lot to like in William Brafford’s meditation on DIY indie rock and localism: Here’s the application to politics. DIY never sought to replace the major labels;...
Indie rock, DIY, localism.
E.D. wrote, “The idealism of the paleoconservative cause is simply too burdened by the idealism of its vision.” To which I offer—not necessarily as a rebuttal—three letters: DIY. As punks and hardcore kids in...
Yep, the times are a changing…
Justice in Iowa. I may have more on this later after I read the opinion.
Ward Churchill
1. Ward Churchill is an asshole. 2. He was actually correct in saying, in his notorious essay “Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Chickens Coming Home to Roost” and subsequent interviews, that...
Oh give me…
…a break people. Will you stop at nothing? Have we already forgotten the close, close relationship between the Bush family and the House of Saud? Yes, Allahpundit mentions the hand-holding Bush and his Saudi...
