Race, wealth, and homeownership
Reading Jason Kuznicki’s article in the latest issue of Cato Journal, I was struck by the similarities between his historical analysis and a post Jamelle wrote a few months ago. First, here’s Jamelle (emphasis...
Monthly Archive: November 2009
Washington & The Emerald City
Gregory Maguire’s Wicked is an excellent read, and its sequels – Son of a Witch & A Lion Among Men – are as well. They should be on your to-read list, and not just...
Remain Calm. All Is Well!
We are in the process of upgrading our server. The site may be a bit, uhh, temperamental over the next 24-48 hours, although hopefully blogging will be able to continue relatively unabated. P.S. (Erik...
Because, as we all know, Military Spending Doesn’t Count
New York Times: The nation’s top military officer said Wednesday that he expected the Pentagon to ask Congress in the next few months for emergency financing to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,...
Survey Says: 49% of Americans Don’t Much Like Homosexuality
This exchange between Rod Dreher and Ta-Nehisi Coates on the basis of opposition to same-sex marriage is interesting, if only because it provides another striking example of how ones identity has an incredible impact on how...
I’d like to associate myself with this screed
From John Judis: I have to admit that I didn’t think it was possible to have worse service than Comcast. It was like trying to imagine a more devastating hurricane than Katrina or a...
A Time to Kill
Sonny Bunch has written a long, impassioned defense of the death penalty. Here’s the crux of his argument: Every time I start to waver on my support for the death penalty — as I...
Public Service Announcement
Hulu has just added “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” “A Fistful of Dollars,” “Ronin,” and perhaps most importantly, “Spartacus.” God bless the Internet.
Why Christie’s Win Tells Us Even Less than McDonnell’s
Hopefully, I’ll have more on the New Jersey election results later, but I must say that I’m incredibly amused by the varied commentary on the “meaning” of the New Jersey elections by pundits who...
“deep thoughts” on television shows I watch or used to watch
1. Deadwood, aside from being far too foul-mouthed for my taste (and a bad influence on me) was pretty good the first season. After that it totally fell apart. I think this was because...
quote of the day
“The other day something occurred to me. When you are very young, people, particularly your parents, come up to you and say “What does the doggie say?”, “What does the kitty say?”, or “What...
Education loses out in Arizona
Or at least it does in my hometown, which voted overwhelmingly against what would amount to an average of $11 more a year in property taxes to shore up a failing school budget.
A brief aside on yesterday’s election in Virginia
I live in Virginia (albeit one of the commonwealth’s few liberal strongholds*) and got my start in the blogosphere as a Virginia politics blogger, so if you’ll forgive me, I’m going to indulge my...
gay marriage and the catholic church in maine
[updated] Maine proponents of gay marriage rights woke to defeat today, which is a shame and another signal that the country is still bitterly divided on this issue. The New York Times reports: “The Catholic...
Post-election ruminations
So let’s see – in Virginia a life-long social conservative, Bob McDonnell, ran as a pragmatist and beat the tar out of Democrat Creigh Deeds. Exit polls show a majority of Virginians still support...
Pop Quiz
Here’s a thumbsucker for all you would-be communitarians. Was the following published at Alternet or Front Porch Republic?
How could this happen?
Having read Glenn Greenwald for some time now, I was beginning to think I had lost the capacity to be shocked by the excesses of the War on Terror. Then this happened: It’s not...
Pundits Don’t Understand Politics: Obama 1st Anniversary Edition
The HuffingtonPost today is chalk chock-full of Obama: What Happened? Bill Maher, Drew Westen, and Arianna herself get in on the act. To be fair und balanced for a second, there a number of...
Worse Than Terrorism?
Rep. Virginia Foxx thinks that the health care bill is “worse than terrorism“:
