Yearly Archive: 2009
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“:
Dylan Revisionism
Noted Creed apologist Joe Carter points us to this sure-to-be contentious Bob Dylan takedown. Let the arguments begin!
Stirring the Pot
Via Alex Massie, here’s a telling example of the United States helping dissidents by minding its own business:
Frum Forum?
I hate to say it, but I really don’t like the new name. Frum Forum? New Majority may not have been perfect, but I just don’t think Frum Forum really….works. I would have just...
“Do Smart, Hard-Working People Deserve to Make More Money?
At The Baseline Scenario, James Kwak offers some provocative questions.
Why I Voted For Daggett
While I don’t think Corzine’s been as bad for New Jersey as most people seem to think (the Dems in the Assembly and Senate being a much different story), there was never any chance...
Two Quick Responses
At the risk of sounding overly nitpicky, I think E.D. is being a little imprecise when he attributes minority voting preferences to simple “populism”: I think a lot of minority voters aren’t so much...
Scenes from a parallel universe
Rod Dreher exhumes a great YouTube clip of Kurt Russell auditioning for the role of Han Solo in Star Wars:
Stray thoughts on the NY-23 race
The cosmic significance of the congressional race in New York’s 23rd district has, I think, been wildly overblown by a conservative movement that seems obsessively focused on extremely narrow tactical issues (Van Jones, anyone?)....
We Are Experiencing Institutional Difficulties
At least among liberal bloggers, it’s become a matter of conventional wisdom that Congress – and particularly the Senate – is fundamentally broken. Matthew Yglesias regularly points out our system’s absurdities, and various commentators have...
