Friday Night Jukebox: Random Rules Edition
From the great American road trip album (apologies for the bizarre imagery in the video): Anyway, The Silver Jews are a pretty fantastic band. A few years ago, Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In the Aeroplane...
Monthly Archive: July 2009
I bet you don’t think this post is about you, do you?
Have you ever encountered one of those bloggers who is just the perfect mix of self-denial, insecurity, arrogance, and unoriginality that everything they write seems flat and insincere, contrived, and sort of … regurgitated? ...
Begetting Worse Politicians
Responding to Scott’s argument (with which I agree almost entirely) that Andrew Sullivan’s obsession with Sarah Palin is counterproductive to good politics, Jaybird commented: As someone who was temporarily under the impression that Sarah...
Matt Lewis and Patrick Byrne
Via the man himself in the comments: a very interesting interview between Matt Lewis and Patrick Byrne. They talk about statism, school vouchers, and naked short selling:
Damon Linker on Calvin and American Exceptionalism
Pretty interesting analysis of Calvin’s theology and the evolution of capitalism, manifest destiny, and American exceptionalism. (h/t Conor)
The Tyranny of Mark Levin’s Liberty
Jack Hunter reviews Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto:
quote for the morning
“I would like to make a deal with Cafferty. Jack, you don’t tell people that a career in the performing arts disqualifies them from seeking elected office, and I won’t say publicly that your...
Patrick Byrne
The man in the below video is Patrick Byrne of a blog I just recently discovered called Deep Capture. He’s also the CEO of Overstock.com.
be true to your school?
I was thinking about the loss of my home state’s only major league sports team, the Whalers, and it occurred to me how odd it is when people talk about a team’s fanbase or...
A House of Repeal?
Paging Conor Friedersdorf! You want ideas? Patrick at Popehat’s got a good one. First, the problem to be solved: What’s more remarkable is that, while the House, Senate, and Presidency pass bills that none...
A figurehead for Crunchy Cons?
Paging Rod Dreher and E.D. Kain – Prince Charles sounds like your kind of royalty.
newspapers can’t be successful online?
Why? Honestly, why can’t newspapers be successful with online revenue only? Other companies finance their operations online. Google is financed entirely (or almost entirely) through ad revenue. Why can’t the news survive in this...
Annals of Essential Police Equipment
See TPM on “chopper porn.” The accompanying photo gallery is priceless.
Real Fantasy
I stumbled across this short essay from February by Richard Morgan whose book, The Steel Remains, I am currently reading. (And it’s good so far, and very dark, and very adult.) Anyways, Morgan takes...
New Adventures in Historical Revisionism
Ron Christie – whose credentials as a historian are, shall we say, limited – is also shocked that Obama would think to give other countries credit for helping end the Cold War: First, Mr....
no manning
Julian Sanchez, a libertarian, recently wrote a smart post about “weak manning,” a fallacious kind of reasoning where one responds only to the weakest argument of one’s opponent. There’s a worse fallacy, I think....
tackling brands is tricky, tackling verbs is even harder
Matt Yglesias asks “Is bing better?” in reference to Microsoft’s new search engine which may or may not become a real competitor to Google. Microsoft often enters these various markets with mixed success –...
u(i)gh
I saw a group protesting the Chinese masscare of Uighurs here in Vancouver this evening on my way home from work. The cynic in me thinks that since they are Muslims and not smiley...
Book Bleg: The Evolution of God
Robert Wright, The Evolution of God — This is the first clip of a multi-clip interview between Bob Wright and Ross Douthat discussing Wright’s new book The Evolution of God. You can click that...
