Monthly Archive: August 2010

Count me 100% with Big Tent Democrat on the proper role of politicians (Mayor Bloomberg obviously notwithstanding) with regard to the Cordoba Center, and on whether it’s actually important that politicians go on record...

The fiscal obstinacy of Tom Coburn, you might be surprised to know, is saving American lives. Due mostly to his objections, an otherwise uncontroversial bill to grant oversight of rail transit safety to the...

By Rick Ungar In the 1995 film “The American President”, Andrew Shepherd, the fictional president of the United States, stands before the White House press corps and declares-  “America isn’t easy. America is advanced...

An Alternet article profiles “Ten Young Right-Wingers Being Prepped to Take Over the Conservative Movement“- #6 is E.D. Kain, who is “so goddamn reasonable as to be unquotable”. Erik- since nobody else here is...

Other than raw vindictiveness, there is no reason to view this as anything other than an unqualified good, no matter what your attitude towards the Castro regime.  It’s a small step, only easing the tight...

Unqualified Offerings’ Thoreau reminds me of a bit I wrote in 2004. The Wayback Machine didn’t have it for some reason, but I did. It still seems appropriate today.

Low-hanging fruit, I know, but given the role of Jihad Watch in pushing the Cordoba Community Center story to the front-pages, it’s worth pointing out nonetheless.  ESPN does a little human-interest piece about a...

Bemoaning the “nanny state”, Andrew Sullivan highlights a recent story about posters for a Will Ferrel comedy being altered to suit the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s advertising policy, that “ads should not appear to...

The claim of this post is simple but facetious. Cookbooks lie to you.

This be an open thread y’all. Rather than give some sort of sentimental, pretentious review, I’m just going to post the awesomeness that is Jimmy Cliff without any further explanation.  You got a problem...

This comes 12 years too late, but I still think it’s worth correcting the record. In his otherwise wonderfully readable and acute book, In Praise of Commercial Culture, Tyler Cowen (now, of course, a...

As one would expect, the GOP’s new official budget proposal to “stop the reckless spending binge” doesn’t even attempt to do anything of the sort, offering instead little more than time-honored vacuous platitudes about...

The third in my paperback reprint series at lulu.com is Kevin Carson’s Studies in Mutualist Political Economy.