One of the real mixed blessings of modern warfare has been that improvements in medical technologies have allowed more wounded soldiers to survive what would have once been fatal injuries- now there are more...
Charles Taylor is a Canadian philosopher and social theorist. His most recent book, A Secular Age, is an examination of modern secularism and the cultural conditions that gave rise to it. I want to...
Stumbled on this video at James Joyner’s digs, and both the lecture and the animation are quite extraordinary. I was nodding along throughout. We do need to go in the exact opposite direction than...
In one way, I agree with Mark’s post. There is nothing inherently liberal in the Democratic Party, and nothing inherently conservative in the Republican Party. All of the most common ideological terms – conservative,...
So I guess Atlanta rapper T.I. may be going back to jail soon, but at least he got to do a little bit of police-negotiator work before his hearing: “Police were trying to talk...
In lieu of real blogging, I thought I’d throw out some ideas from Ian M. Banks’ introductory essay on his Culture novels (via io9). Here’s Banks on the future obsolescence of market economics: Concomitant...
Says the Washington Post: The effort to repeal the law barring gay men and lesbians from serving openly in the U.S. military is nearing a chaotic endgame involving fast-moving courts, a slow-moving military, a...
I see that it’s time once again for conservatives to worry that the American male is insufficiently masculine. Someone should tell them that the very first sign of insufficient masculinity is worrying about insufficient...
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on From The Washington Post: On Political EndorsementAs you will recall, Citizens United was a case in which the government tried to censor political spe…
on Open Mic for the week of 10/28/2024Also Silver kind of gets at this, but if you have absolutely no idea what is going to happen, the sa… on Open Mic for the week of 10/28/2024What I have to keep reminding people is that it isn’t just Trump, as if he is an isolated oddity. Th…
on Weekend Plans Post: We’re Getting It BackAfter the euphoria subsided I actually felt kind of bad for Bears fans. For almost 25 years under Sn…
on Weekend Plans Post: We’re Getting It BackI'm sure the Commanders' D backs will actually carry out their assignments, unlike a certain Chicago…
on Open Mic for the week of 10/28/2024My poll doesn't match everyone else's, ergo there is a good chance that I'm wrong and everyone else… on The Way Through is Donald Trump for PresidentThe vast majority of voters are incapable of forming an informed opinion on whether there should be…
on Open Mic for the week of 10/28/2024"herding may make individual polls more accurate" I see what he's trying to say here but I don't thi…
on Open Mic for the week of 10/28/2024What I have to keep reminding people is that it isn't just Trump, as if he is an isolated oddity. Le…
on Open Mic for the week of 10/28/2024Oh yeah, if the baseline polls are cooked...so are we.
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