Wendy Kaminer wants fewer guns, more pornography
Well, not quite. But she has an interesting post on obscenity law and firearms: If you consider a stash of obscene videos scarier than a stash of firearms then this is the country for...
Daily Archive: January 6, 2010
Public Service Announcement
Distinguished League alumnus Freddie is taking an indefinite break from politics in favor of some serious book-blogging at his old digs. I encourage all of you to check it out – I know I’ll...
Rachel Maddow
It’s been years since I’ve watched more than a brief clip of a nighttime talking heads show. I just can’t do it without my eyes rolling to the back of my head.
Sacrificing Ideology at the Altar of Culture
Jamelle writes: “In a lot of cases, the aim of liberals isn’t necessarily to massively expand the reach of government as much as it is to add some intentionality and rationality — as well...
Tweak geeks
Was Best Buy really telling customers that their optimization program would increase processor speeds by 200% for $39.99 as this article claims? This is an amusing story about the Geek Squad’s abilty to fuck up...
Policy Pet Peeves (or the political cost of the hidden welfare state)
(cross-posted from my blog) Atrios: One of my longstanding pet peeves is that everyone in the US pretends we don’t have an “industrial policy” because that implies naughty state intervention in certain sectors. But...
Have Yourself a Merry Little Epiphany
For those in the Western Christian Liturgical Calendar….Happy Epiphany. The Feast remembers The Wise Guys Men who came to visit the child Jesus. They represent the coming of The Gentiles into the Jewish tradition....
Christopher Lee (‘Saruman’ from “Lord of the Rings”) to release symphonic metal album
Really, the title of this post doesn’t do justice to how awesome this project sounds. Details below the fold:
“The West is Choked by Fear”
Savor this exceedingly badass op-ed from Henryk Broder on the Danish cartoon crisis. I’ve left my favorite excerpts below the fold, but you really should read the whole thing.
More wronged wives should emulate Jenny Sanford
She’s publishing a tell-all memoir in February. Good for her.
Whole Foods Libertarianism
Despite the occasional lapse into liberal condescension, The New Yorker‘s profile of Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, the new age-y libertarian whose Wall Street Journal health care op-ed sparked massive protests last summer, is...
Evil Rorty, loan sharks, and Bastiat’s Broken Window
Mike Konczal (aka Rortybomb) has a really fascinating thought experiment over at his blog wherein, a la Star Trek (and later Southpark) he transforms into “Evil Rorty” in order to make a point about the...
