Monthly Archive: June 2009

My anti-free trade, anti-globalization, anti-capitalism friends should read Radley Balko this morning at Reason.

“Conveniently, if not coincidentally, ‘sense of’ speak is also a great way to evade responsibility. We share in a strategically therapeutic conspiracy of vagueness. In a world where there are only senses of things,...

Conor interviews James for the Big Ideas blog; and Patrick Deneen declares war on the PomoCons!

If you read my post from earlier today, please read this one by Reihan over at the Scene, where he (with characteristic good humor) responds to some criticism from Matt Frost, Daniel Larison and...

“To me, and I suspect no one else on earth, there is something wonderful about listening to country music playing in the cab, air conditioner running, the hum of a huge diesel engine in...

“The anti-gay-marriage forces are stuck making a slippery-slope argument when, in fact, we’re already at the bottom of the slippery slope. Here’s a guy, Sanford, who has not just not a moral and religious...

Bruce Riedel: “Armageddon in Islamabad”  (h/t Salam)

Digsby, the IM client I use, has added a Twitter feed, so I’ve created a dummy Twitter account just so I can follow people. But I’ve tried to follow people– clicked the follow button,...

I have to say, this whole Sanford affair is really depressing.  Sanford on the Appalachian for naked hiking day is one thing.  Sanford in Beunos Aires for a rendezvous with his lover over father’s...

See here and here for the fully story on Transformers’ hilariously racist double-caricature.

Erik pronounces Reihan’s latest column a disappointment. I’m not sure why. Oh, the column is very wrong-headed, but it isn’t disappointing, because disappointment suggests that you’d be expecting something different. I don’t know how...

“The peculiar truth is that Barack Obama, for all his realist convictions, is at his best when he embraces his inner neocon.” ~ Reihan Salam, in a particularly disappointing column. Matt Frost counters Salam. ...

So one thing I’ve been thinking about lately is how dissident conservatives – of either the reformist or the paleo stripe (or those reformopaleo hybrid types) – dialogue with movement conservatives and with each...

So a homeless dude comes into the church today (which is a regular occurrence) and asks for a big garbage bag for his stuff (that’s rather irregular).   Ok, so I go get him the...

So, one of the great joys of fatherhood is being able to do kids stuff again.  After the leap, a cartoon I drew whilst coloring with my daughter.  This is what I did back...