Briefly– it’s standard practice for the defenders of the NBA to laugh off anyone who thinks that the officiating is bad, to act as if any perceived bias is just crazy conspiracy theorizing, and...
Over at the Daily Dish, Lane Wallace bravely defends the liberal arts (from whom, I wonder – colleges’ burgeoning admissions rolls?), arguing that a humanities degree is somehow necessary to grasp ambiguity and encourage...
“I gave up on post-theism in my 20’s. I worked through my post-post-theism in my early 30’s. I’m currently enjoying my post-post-post-theism too much to really contemplate post-post-post-post-theism, but, hey. Maybe someone will write...
“It’s a good thing I’m a paranoid son of a bitch.” Ethan Kanin (former Chief of Staff to President Allison Taylor on 24 in last night’s Season Finale)
There are more than a few compelling reasons to avoid a completely homogeneous workforce, but Matt Labash’s look at sclerotic diversity industry is still pretty damning (and hilarious): Indeed, Peggy Norris, a private-sector contract...
I read Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons several years ago. I liked some of the puzzles, and the mystery and suspense were gripping enough, but at the end of the day Brown’s prose makes...
Here’s what I wrote the other day: Now they [The Taliban] are more like a mafia, in which case syndicate is a better term, but one that works against the grain of the US’...
To James Poulos: Having Terry [McAuliffe] around is like having the Geico gecko’s uncharismatic loan shark cousin around, and the Macker knows it. Speaking of the Geico Gecko, if you haven’t seen the Geckham...
Daniel Larison takes issue with Obama’s Notre Dame speech and especially Obama’s use of doubt, which Larison maintains is not a quality, but rather “a function of a mind clouded by the passions”. Doubt,...
Pelosi-gate, in a nutshell: What did one member of the minority party know about the majority party’s illegal war crimes and when did she know it? ~ The Anonymous Liberal
The text of Obama’s commencement address is here. – Some thoughts on Obama’s speech starting with conspiracy theories and moving from there to Obama’s liberalism and from there to abortion as a test case...
This is just nonsense. I swear, as hapless as the Democrats may be, every time John Boehner opens his mouth I realize just how much more pathetic the Republicans are. In the midst of...
Reihan quotes Jeffrey Toobin: In every major case since he became the nation’s seventeenth Chief Justice, Roberts has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the state over the condemned, the executive branch over...
…just don’t steal from new media, okay? Oh, the scandal of it all…. For shame!
So on the occasion of the apparent demise of the Tamil Tigers, it’s worth pointing out that it was never in fact true, as was often stated in the days and years following 9/11,...
The Golf Links Sarah Norcliffe Leghorn The golf links lie so near the mill That almost every day The laboring children can look out And see the men at play.
Back by popular demand positive comments from Dave and Will and the fact that with Scott gone we forget to do the Jukebox last night, the juke joint returns. Today’s featured artist is (early)...
Well, it looks like HBO will begin shooting the pilot episode for George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones in October in Northern Ireland. I am gripped with excitement and trepidation. And at...
This is, without a doubt, the creepiest thing you will read all week: The responding officers — eight teenage boys and girls, the youngest 14 — face tripwire, a thin cloud of poisonous gas...
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on Open Mic for the week of 1/6/2025Moral panics never depended on facts and numbers.
on Open Mic for the week of 1/6/2025I was close though. He got 324 votes in NH that one time.
on Open Mic for the week of 1/6/2025Well done.
on Don’t Bother UsPlus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
on Re-Open the Asylums: A New TakeThere won't be a recall movement then, if for no better reason (and there is a much better one -- li…
on Re-Open the Asylums: A New TakeAllow me to copy/paste what I said: "If I am right, there will be a movement to recall/replace some… on Re-Open the Asylums: A New TakeWhat's supposed to happen in Westchester in September?
on Open Mic for the week of 1/6/2025Yes, it's impressive calling 230 for Harris. It's the 308 you called for JEB! that we're less impres…
on Re-Open the Asylums: A New TakeYour crime on the subway isn't real angle seems eerily similar to the inflation isn't real angle tha…
on Open Mic for the week of 1/6/2025Though it comes with plenty of quid pro quo corruption
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