I was at the natural health food store last night with my family and there was this...
Month: August 2010
Let me start out by saying that had I been a California voter in 2008, I would’ve...
While watching the intro to Top Chef: Washington, DC last night: “The Washington Monument looks like a...
I’m still wading through the text of the Perry decision, but this post sums up my feelings...
Below the fold, because they’re lengthy.
Here are my hasty reactions to a decision I’ve only partly read. I’m distracted by personal matters...
I don’t think the pro-choicers and the pro-lifers are going to agree on this one. But I...
[updated] Okay. Perhaps I stirred the pot a bit too vigorously. In any case, let me clarify...
Very belatedly indeed, I’d like to offer a rejoinder to Ross Douthat and Alan Jacob‘s explanation for the absence...
I hate to be the turd in the punch bowl, but Bloomberg’s latest proclamation on the ‘Ground...
If you haven’t read or heard it yet, this really is a special, stirring bit of speechmaking...
I don’t have any inside gossip on Perry vs. Schwarzenegger, whose decision will be announced this afternoon....
In what can only be described as a marriage straight outta Hell, our own E.D. Kain has...
As any blog-reader can attest, there’s something very satisfying about a good thorough debunking. Seeing a smart...
I haven’t seen anyone sum up the absurdity of the “Ground Zero Mosque” controversy quite as well...
Ta-Nehisi Coates writes of the imperfect parallel between same-sex marriage and anti-miscegenation laws: [T]he comparison with interracial...
Inspired by Jason’s latest post, I decided to pick up a copy of A Farewell to Alms...
Arguing that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s (who is neither a US citizen nor a US resident) document dump on...
So several of Andrew’s readers disagreed with my post on abortion and slavery. And at least one...
[updated] Anne Rice offers up some bizarre reasoning for quitting her faith: I quit being a Christian....