Speechless
There is but one word in the English language that can describe how one feels upon reading this anecdote about Washington Mutual’s collapse. Patrick utters that word. Sure, the plural of anecdote is not...
Daily Archive: October 28, 2009
If I Had Courage…
I’d follow the advice Monsieur IOZ gives to Kerry Howley. Alas, I’d rather continue tilting at windmills.
Bloggers and biographies.
I just thought of something. In maybe twenty-five or thirty years, we’ll start seeing scholarly biographies of people who at one time maintained or contributed to a blog.
Podcast: Brescia for Delegate!
I sat down with Eric Brescia, Republican candidate for delegate in Virginia’s 47th district, to discuss his thoughts on a few local issues as well as the future of the party. Eric is running...
The Big Picture
I don’t really have anything insightful to add to Hendrik Hertzberg’s most recent post, but this is certainly worth repeating:
Stuff White People Americans Do
Over at Stuff White People Do, Nikki has a great guest post explaining one of the tactics (some) white people use to justify or explain their opposition to affirmative action and other forms of...
against the wind
Let me just say that I am overwhelmingly sympathetic to what Conor and Rod are saying regarding the punditocracy on the right and the futility of engaging the base. In other words, I go...
Lost vs. Heroes
Following up a little on my last post wherein I quoted Peter Suderman lamenting the lack of direction and planning for the show Battlestar Galactica, let me just add that two other shows I...
quote of the day
“I still love Battlestar Galactica, despite showrunner Ron Moore totally dropping the ball with the ending. But I think it’s pretty clear by now that the show’s biggest flaw was that, despite what the opening...
From the Department of Missing the Point
Despite my recent disagreements with Conor, one area where he is indubitably correct is in criticizing conservatism’s inability to engage the culture in which it must exist. This, to me, is not a political...
Carte de resident permanent
As of this morning, yours truly is now a Permanent Resident of Canada. The card is styling with a high-tech bar code, picture where I can’t smile so I look like a thug, and...
Politics over Freedom, Ctd
Via Doug Mataconis, Andrew Coulson finds yet another one of those “little incidents” that add up to a pattern of choosing politics over respect for freedoms:
On duplicity, fairweather conservatism, and the art of war
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate. Confront them with annihilation, and they...
not knowing which expert is correct is indicative of the problem
Via Andrew, Andrew Exum complains that Glenn Greenwald cherry picks which experts on the ground to listen to about the conditions in Afghanistan. Fair enough. But this is actually an argument against foreign occupation...
Free Douthat
Read Conor Friedersdorf. One thing I failed to point out in my initial post is that part of the problem with running a weekly column is that every one that comes out it is...
“Taking responsibility” again.
Conor Friedersdorf has posted another entry in the “sprawling, muddled debate about the state of the right, the role dissident conservatives should play, and the wisdom of attacking talk radio hosts” that’s been playing...
