Speaking of Afghanistan…
Scott and I discussed the military and political side of it, here. By happenstance, today my Gmail tells me that prices are 70% off for flights on Afghan Airways just in time for the...
Monthly Archive: December 2009
Fools and scoundrels
“If anyone tries to tell you that uncertainty about climate change is a reason for inaction, he’s either a fool or a scoundrel. Probably a bit of both.” ~ Mark Kleiman Kleiman makes a...
Larison and the Economist
This interview with Daniel Larison over at The Economist is quite good. You should read it.
Sunday Poem Series
If by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make...
And we have a winner
An epic (and topical) cover of Miley Cyrus’s “Party in the USA”: More cheesy pop songs should raise privacy-related concerns!
The Best Cover of All Time, Volume III
Stars’ version of “This Charming Man” should also be in the running:
Why Emperor Palpatine Wasn’t as Wrong as You Think
We have enough examples of republican forms of galactic government to know that the alternative isn’t that much better.
Poetic License Meets the War on Christmas
I hereby declare James Hanley this season’s poet laureate.
quote of the day
“The most important dividing line between “ancient” and “medieval” – the profoundest marker of the “fall of Rome” was not a matter of language or culture, of the shift from togas to tunics or...
cart & buggy
Lately I find the real distinction between old and new media most obvious when comparing blogs to op/ed columns. Really, I enjoy Ross Douthat’s blog at the New York Times so much more than...
Limited Government and the Frontier
Alex Massie channels Frederick Jackson Turner to explain the United States’ attachment to limited government.
conservatives as self-parodies
This interview with Andy Schlafly [below] of conservapedia.com is hard to watch. It’s almost embarrassing. I think Colbert is at his best for most of the exchange, and the zinger about creating his own reality...
Why gay marriage is (probably) still inevitable
In the wake of several high profile setbacks, a recent Politico article casts doubt on one of the gay marriage movement’s core assumptions: namely, that public acceptance of same-sex partnerships is an inevitability. I...
Party like it’s 2004
Victor Davis Hanson won’t give up the fight: The president apparently does not realize that in Iraq too there was a coalition, that the Iraq War was approved by both houses of Congress on...
