Google Bleg
I know Freddie thinks Google wants to eat our souls (along with that nefarious Steve Jobs) but I kind of like the monolithic software company, personally. Lately I’ve really grown attached to Google Chrome....
Monthly Archive: October 2009
The public’s opinion of the accuracy of climate change science is, frankly, irrelevant
Look, I think cap-and-trade is bad policy on the merits. But global warming is a) a real problem and b) deserves a serious response. I am also baffled by the idea that a survey...
Another response to Conor
[moved to an earlier time, off the sidebar, yada yada yada…] “Perhaps we’re getting at what puzzles and galls me so much about recent posts at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen about how dissident...
Mad Men
This excellent Atlantic article on the show echoes a few criticisms first aired in an equally excellent Culture11 review last year. Unfortunately, the original article is lost to the Internets, but I found a...
Float On
After reading several accounts of the Ephemerisle Festival (for those interested, a more in-depth explanation of the event – and seasteading – can be found here), I’m more convinced than ever that I really...
Reform Conservatism, Not Conservatives
It’s clear to me that Conor and to a lesser extent Rod don’t understand what Jamelle, Freddie, E.D., and myself have been driving at in our various critiques of reform-minded conservatism. Conor’s misunderstanding is...
radical Jainism makes more sense to me than veganism
Let me preface this by saying that I couldn’t care less about what people choose to eat, whether it’s no meat or all meat or no wheatgerm or whatever. I can’t imagine wanting to...
I don’t know if this is the best thing Andrew Sullivan has written . . .
But it’s pretty damn close. You really should read the whole thing.
This is all an elaborate joke, right?
Freddie must have infiltrated Slate’s editorial staff to write this gem, which masquerades as a serious defense of Creed’s musical stylings. Wait, what’s that you say? It’s not a parody? Oh dear . ....
Only Lovers Democrats Left Alive
This is a good point (via Cogitamus): As long as there was still a good distance to go before a bill was passed, Business Dog Dems could afford to be Business Dogs – to...
Quote for the Day
A Salami: The perfect blend of subtle irony, seriousness, futurism, and wonkhood. To wit, here’s Reihan in his interview with The Economist: In the far future, I imagine that there will be bipartisan cooperation...
more of the same
Part of what makes the Israel-Palestine debate so wearying is that so many fundamental broken arguments have a remarkable persistence. This is largely a result of the huge role that emotionalism, ad hominem and...
You can go your own way
Many readers are undoubtedly suspicious of self-indulgent exercises in libertarian wankery, but this excellent dialogue from Reason raises some interesting questions about the nature of governance, freedom and culture. As someone who grew up...
Reviewing Obama’s War Part III: Rory Stewart
Part I here, Part II here. The Obama administration has proposed a very, very narrow objective, which is counterterrorism, and a very maximalist, broad definition of how to achieve it, which extends to counterinsurgency...
Reminder of the Day
KipEsquire, on Twitter: “Still get the giggles at Twitterers whose Bio lines read “Conservative. Libertarian.” What’s next – “Mormon. Jew.”?” Well, in addition to attempting the “Conservative. Libertarian.” double, Mitt Romney has also legendarily...
Wyden’s Free Choice Act
At my other digs, I pimp out Sen. Ron Wyden and shake my head at the nonsense of Max Baucus and the Democrats.
nota bene
The recently-interviewed Conor Friedersdorf is starting a twitter feed where he aggregates what he feels is the best nonfiction writing. Check it out at http://twitter.com/JournoCurator .
New Policy Blog
Okay, so funny story: a week or two ago I wrote this really overly-harsh review of a site, and then one of the writer’s at that site knocked me down a peg or two...
Reviewing Obama’s War: Part II
For Part I here. So I’m breaking my own rules in this second post (a little bit). I said these posts would only be buitl around the interviews in this PBS documentary, but then...
Thank You
Awhile back, I asked for recommendations on good WWI books since the book I had chosen was pretty weak. I wound up going with the Keegan book, which seemed to be the most recommended...
