Time for Training Comrade
Doing a quick youtube research for Mike @ The Big Stick–he asked about a core exercise I found this video. This is all kinds of awesome and should be the new internet sensation. The...
Monthly Archive: August 2009
When the Lights Went Dim
When you get the chance, you should check out Kai Wright’s terrific piece in the American Prospect on the decline of the black middle class. The short of it is that widespread “wealth poverty”...
yack-batas
As per Jaybird’s recommendations, I tried a workout of tabatas today. I did it slightly differently than his version. The one I did is 20 seconds on (full energy), 10 seconds rest, 20 second...
people like the post office
Sure they do. It’s not a bad system, all told. That said, with budget woes mounting and snail-mail on the decline, isn’t it time to scale back to four days a week? There’s been...
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains . . .
I first read The New American Militarism a few years ago for a class in college. Then came Andrew Bacevich’s latest book, The Limits of Power, which I picked up just as soon as...
In which I reveal my Loyalist sympathies
Via Spencer Ackerman is George Gilder’s pretty reprehensible argument in favor of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories: [KATHRYN JEAN] LOPEZ: What do you mean these wretched refugees benefited from Israel? GILDER: The key period...
Words Fail
A former lobbyist for Pakistan has been hired by the State Department to coordinate aid to that country, which may highlight loopholes in the administration’s tough new lobbying rules, designed to slow Washington’s revolving...
Like Ma Bell, I’ve got the Ill Communication*
Freddie already gave me a gracious introduction, but I thought it was worth writing a quick introduction for everyone. My name is Jamelle Bouie, I’m a recent graduate of the University of Virginia, and...
it’s my privilege to welcome
Jamelle Bouie, of the United States of Jamerica fame, to the ranks as a member of the League of Ordinary Gentlemen.
another slightly more academic-sounding addition to a relentlessly partisan and biased liberal blogosphere
“The League should feature higher standards for honest assessment, especially since I’ve commented on this exact point here once already. Honestly, I’ve thought very highly of the League in spite of its generally left-leaning...
No, it really is the Republicans who are pushing this nonsense
It takes a certain amount of chutzpah to blame the rise of the Birthers on the Left after the movement germinated at conservative sites like Free Republic and WorldNetDaily, garnered favorable reviews from putatively...
The Honor of the Mascot, Or A Team By Any Other Name
By Jay Adler A lot of sports fans sighed the usual big one recently when the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, on a technicality, upheld a lower court decision in favor of the...
thoughts on Wilkinson’s views on income inequality
Will Wilkinson has done yeoman’s work in his recent posts regarding income inequality, and in articulating some of my own dissatisfaction with certain liberal narratives regarding income inequality. A key graf: If we find...
saving the children, one banned book at a time
This sort of thing really pisses me off. For more on the CPSIA and dangerous, lead-inked vintage children’s books, go here or here or here. Then go buy up lots of used books at...
quote for the morning
“A combination of dumb drug laws, dysfunctional parole policies, “three strikes” laws passed by initiative, an endless procession of tougher-than-thou politicians, and a famously thuggish and politically powerful prison guards union has gotten California...
brief thoughts on cash for clunkers
Well, first of all I have a clunker. A minivan to be precise. It is rusty on the top, and though it drives fairly well in town, our mechanic recently warned us not to...
Never Underestimate Your Opponent’s Sincerity
Marc Ambinder on why astro-turfing should not serve as a basis for discrediting the underlying movements:
More Boozing
Yesterday’s post on the drink selection at Obama’s beer summit provoked heated comments from Pabst aficionados, Dogfish loyalists, fans of beer-fruiting, traditionalists, hop-heads, and even one staunch defender of Biden’s choice of a non-alcoholic...
