Monthly Archive: October 2010

Triumph of the Ill

Political humorists, being of the highest American caste in the true yet occult reckoning, are capable of swooping in on someone else’s game and then soundly beating them at same.

FBI or al Qaeda?

Fill in the blank: Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Loudoun County never suggested any attacks inside the United States, and the plot to attack Metro was hatched by […..], according to court records unsealed Thursday.

More on the “Threat” of Sharia Law

Transplanted Lawyer has an important, must-read follow-up post to his piece on Oklahoma’s “anti-Sharia” referendum in which he looks closely at the cases cited by proponents of the law and finds them to be...

“Stick” it to the spambots!

If you don’t hate sticker puns, you should head over to the American Scene’s “Stick with the Scene” competition. It really needs a boost. Judging by the comments section, only three contestants are vying...

The Three Jonathans

Jonathan Bernstein is blogging (guest-blogging, I think) over at Citizen Cohn, Jonathan Cohn’s blog. This puts us this much closer to my idea for the Three Jonathans Blog – Chait, Cohn, and Bernstein all...

Notes from a litigious society

I would like to congratulate Justice Paul Wooten of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan for his no-nonsense ruling that 4-year-old children should be open to lawsuits for biking recklessly. In the case of...

Secret Socialism

In high school, I was a self-described socialist. What this meant at the time, God only knows. Now I vacillate between agreeing with our smarter, more prolific blog contributors. If you go back through...

Correction

I have made a significant correction to my post yesterday on the effects of Citizens United on the race in OR-4.  I somehow inexcusably managed to forget that individual contributions to PACs for independent...

Government and Fraud Open Thread

Jonathan Bernstein argues that, although it is bad in itself and should be deterred to the extent possible, increased presence of fraud in a government program is a good sign that the program is...

National Review and Prop 19

Here’s an odd statement from Andrew Sullivan: A search for a single mention of Prop 19 in today’s National Review found only this measured piece by Reihan, one of our most illustrious Dish alums....

Broken Culture, Broken Politics?

R.R. Reno has written an essay that asks some important questions and sent me thumbing through my copy of Jacques Barzun’s From Dawn to Decadence: In this atmosphere, the pressing question about politics was...

Obama does the Daily Show

I agree entirely with Jonah Goldberg’s viewing of the Obama/Jon Stewart interview: I apologize for not focusing on this pressing matter earlier, but I’ve only just now actually watched the apparently infamous "dude" scene...

More, Please

John Judis takes an honest look at the Tea Parties. (Via Pseudo-Polymath).