The Evolution of Blogging: An Interview with John Cole
John Cole began blogging at Balloon Juice way back in 2002, when he was still a die-hard Republican. According to the FAQ on his blog, you can “check the archive to see how crazy”...
Yearly Archive: 2009
Sunday Poem Series
The Winter it is Past by Robert Burns The winter it is past, and the simmer comes at last, And the small birds sing on ev’ry tree: The hearts of these are glad, but...
Who Dey
My Bengals sweep The Steelers (face greginak) and go 4-0 this season against last year’ s entrants into the AFC Championship (Pittsburgh and Baltimore). The last time we won the AFC North and made...
Cincinnati-West Virginia Open Thread
Mark T. wants us to respect foozball in the Big East. Well, my hometown Bearcats have just gone up 21-14 in a game against the Mountaineers. Tony Pike comes off the bench with 2...
Friday Night Jukebox
To celebrate Mary Washington’s unprecedented semi-final showing at the recent Harvard Policy Debate Tournament, here’s a great song that includes a very random Harvard reference: Enjoy your weekend.
One more post on marriage-equality and religious liberty.
Lest my posts today paint me as some great apologist for the Catholic Church, may I turn your attention to my reaction last week to marriage-equality’s defeat in Maine and my disgust with the...
someday
So today someone I know from high school came out on Facebook, and from what I understand, this was the first situation where he’s really come out as gay at all. It was great...
Taking the helmet out of football?
The Journal says that getting rid of helmets and the traditional three point stance may reduce the risk of head injuries on the football field. Pretty interesting stuff, although these solutions were first mentioned...
Gay marriage in D.C. ctd.
Thomas J Reese sums it up nicely, and says it all better than I have. Catholic Charities competes with private and nonprofit agencies for these contracts with the government deciding which organization will provide...
Pat Buchanan is OK with imperialism as long as we’re beating up the Mexicans
I mean, really, what else explains this latest column? For all his faults, I had at least taken Buchanan as a principled opponent of unnecessary foreign wars. Now he goes off and writes one...
Double standards
When the House recently passed a healthcare bill which included restrictions on the use of federal money to subsidize abortion, liberals were up in arms. “It restricts choice!” they cried. Let’s oppose it! Let’s...
Gay Marriage in D.C.
” The premise of today’s story was that the Catholic Church was threatening to cease to provide charitable services if the law legalizing gay marriage is passed. In point of fact, it is the...
Shameless Self-Promotion
Hey kids, just a heads up – I’m guest-blogging at Spencer Ackerman’s digs. So for those of you who can actually tolerate my blogging, head over there for today.
Bruce Bartlett, Socialist Lackey
An essential post from Bartlett on the trivial differences between Europe and the United States. Speaking as someone who managed to survive growing up on that benighted continent, it’s high time we move beyond...
A Portion For The (Megan) Foxes
This might be more James Poulos’s department (or maybe James Joyner’s), but this caught my eye from the cover story on Megan Fox in the NyTimes Magazine [link fixed]. Ms. Fox states: “It’s been...
Somebody had to say it
David Harsanyi admits the obvious: Twitter is basically useless. Sure, I understand the social appeal, and my will to resist setting up an account will probably erode over time. But why a 140-character format...
Best Television Shows of the Decade
The Onion ranks ’em – let the arguments commence! After reading the list, you begin to realize how consistently excellent the last few years of television have been. My personal top five consists of...
How robots replaced amateur artists.
James Matthew Wilson, an editor at Front Porch Republic, has posted the first four sections of an essay called “Art and Beauty against the Politicized Aesthetic,” and the fifth and final section is on...
Let’s Get Dangerous Serious
As much as I appreciate Jamelle’s Darkwing Duck references (though personally, I’ve always preferred TaleSpin), I think he’s being a bit unfair to skeptics of health insurance reform here. Jamelle argues that we can’t...
