The Perils of Reconciliation
On my twitter feed (which you should follow, by the way), a friend asks what I think about the potential use of reconciliation to pass health care reform. For those of you unawares (or...
Monthly Archive: August 2009
Oh, Inverted World!
Liberals boycott Whole Foods while conservatives plot to bring down Wal-Mart. Weird.
52
That’s Obama’s new age, according to World Net Daily, which uses as their source – his “official MySpace page”. And yes, if Obama is actually 52 and not 48, that would mean he is...
Hollywood Squares
Freddie nods approvingly at Conor Friedersdorf’s latest manifesto for conservative writers and entertainers at Doublethink online, and sure enough, it’s a good read. But I wonder if Hollywood’s laissez-faire approach to ideology extends to...
Teh Crazy: Now in Variety Packs!
Jesse Walker’s Five Laws of the Crazy Tree is good stuff, reminding us that no one has a monopoly on insanity in our political discourse, although I agree with Peter Suderman that at least in recent...
everybody should read
Conor’s new piece for AFF on Andrew Breitbart and the conservative/Hollywood divide. I think his analysis is exactly right.
French Fried Health Care Philosophy
From the Wiki from Jean Baudrillard (I know it’s a wiki but this is pretty good)–my emphasis In contrast to poststructuralists such as Foucault, for whom the formations of knowledge emerge only as the...
I long for the day
when people can’t take any dubious argument, shoehorn in a “death of traditional media” angle, and call it a day. That whole line of inquisition is becoming a meaningless, non-falsifiable feint. Incidentally, the studio...
Sunday Poem Series
The Grey Monk by William Blake I die, I die!” the Mother said, “My children die for lack of bread. What more has the merciless Tyrant said?” The Monk sat down on the stony...
the insurance side of health insurance
A lot of people have written that health insurance isn’t really insurance, and that we don’t think of it as insurance. And they’re right! How health insurance works and how we think of it...
“Well, what are you doing creeping around a cow shed at two o’clock in the morning? That doesn’t sound very wise to me.”
In the comments to Scott’s post last week, greginak (who was one of the few to hone in on Scott’s central point) asked for the “posters to offer criticisms of their own theories.” This seemed...
Rod Dreher needs a little perspective
Here’s a little counterfactual for you. Suppose the CEO of a retail chain that is predominantly patronized by cultural conservatives published an op/ed in which he announced his support for abortion rights. Then suppose...
Why Bailouts Suck…the NYC Real Estate Edition…
This REALLY got under my skin: A bill winding its way through Congress proposes to prop up deteriorating apartment complexes by injecting $2 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program into an effort to...
Friday Night Jukebox
The health care debate here at the League is getting heated and tense. At such times, I think there’s only one proper response. In the words of Al Czervik: “So what? So let’s dance!”...
The Zune HD and Windows 7 as test case
It’s been my contention, for some time, that a lot of the anti-Microsoft sentiment from certain fans of Apple isn’t actually based on good-faith considerations of Microsoft’s products and services but out of simple...
response to Conor
A few days ago Conor wrote: [C]able news networks should ban Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin (I haven’t listened to the other hosts enough to make a judgment one way or another)...
