The Grape Story
I realize we’ve reached mosque overload here, but I have an obscure textual question about a story the Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf tells in a video I linked to recently, which in itself really...
Monthly Archive: August 2010
That’s just going to make them angrier…
Peter Jaworski holds an annual “Liberty Summer” event for fellow libertarians on his parents’ land in Orono, Ontario. This year, irony-loving Canadian government officials shut down the event by threatening to fine him up...
ATTN: DC Beer Week
I hope Washington-area readers are taking advantage of DC beer week, which features some truly excellent activities.
Beerblogging: Some Stats
The Czech Republic leads the world in per capita beer consumption. China wins on volume. Sad to say, the United States doesn’t even lead the western hemisphere.
Your friday night jukebox and a brief announcement about League Beer Week
As a belated rejoinder to Joe Carter’s article on music celebrating abusive relationships, I thought I’d post this: I think The Crystal’s were pretty clearly rationalizing an abusive relationship (“If he didn’t care for...
The Price of Loyalty
Brad DeLong calls The Economist’s profile of Mitch Daniels, “A beat sweetener so sweet as to send us all into hyperglycemic collapse.” He continues: When Mitch Daniels was in a position of power and...
Our First Cyborg President
It’s almost hard to grasp how many things this guy gets wrong. But I’ll try.
Thanks, Liberals. Now You’re Making Me Hate Recycling, Too.
[Cleveland] plans to sort through curbside trash to make sure residents are recycling — and fine them $100 if they don’t. The move is part of a high-tech collection system the city will roll...
Same-Sex Marriage and Discrimination
Philosophical confusion seems to cloud all discussions about same-sex marriage to a degree unusual even by the already very cloudy standards of mass democracies. This isn’t a feature of all culture-war issues in general....
Gay Gentlemen
Helpfully, Christwire has posted a list of warning signs that a man might be gay. Regular readers will note that the list effectively outs as gay males everyone who writes here, with the exceptions...
Fresh as boiled cabbage
Having endured one of his commencement addresses, I naively assumed that my opinion of Newt Gingrich could not get much lower. Boy was I wrong! No, I’m not referring to his incoherent objections to...
Christopher Walken reads Lady Gaga
The news is mostly depressing these days. So to hell with the news. Here’s Christopher Walken reading Lady Gaga’s ‘Poker Face’ instead. That’s more like it. If I have to think about the bloody...
Managed Ignorance Watch, Continued
The Washington Post this morning notes that increasing numbers of Americans incorrectly believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim: The number of Americans who believe — wrongly — that President Obama is a Muslim...
Capra-corn and the life of our time
There’s a quote about Carl Jung that I’ve come across a couple of times and shamelessly stolen every chance I’ve had: “We live a double life whether we know it or not. We live...
The Anti-Broder Center Redux
Over at Balloon Juice, E.D. does some ‘splainin’ about his worldview. I must say that it’s one of my favorite pieces ever from our humble webmaster. A brief taste:
Uncertain America
Over at the Washington Examiner I riff off of this post by Kevin Drum and conclude that America is a lot more uncertain than it should be for many working class families. I’m not...
QOTD
“Calling this a mosque is like calling a casino in Las Vegas a cathedral because it has a wedding chapel.” – A Balloon Juice commenter.
Free parking and/or markets.
I was interested to see Tyler Cowen take the high-cost-of-free-parking argument to the pages of the New York Times. In short, many cities require that new development projects, especially commercial ones, provide a certain amount...
