Whose Fault is Generation Me?
Hey all, I’m Ned Resnikoff. Along with Barrett Brown, I’m part of the latest batch of dewy-eyed greenhorns to start contributing regularly to this blog. A little bit about me: I’m a recent NYU...
Monthly Archive: October 2010
The Irrelevance of Damon Linker
Damon Linker is a relative irrelevance. Any attempt by a significant figure to refute his glaring errors only serves to validate the bête noire role he has chosen for himself. Happily, I can point...
Here are all these things
The problem with going over to National Review’s blog The Corner for quick material, as I did last night, is that one tends to run across at least two or three other things that also...
And did you know their state bird is the cardinal?
I don’t mean to pull a Colbert-style “Better Know a State” here, but I’m a little surprised by how under-the-radar this West Virginia Senate race has been. Figured a bit of background was useful...
Nice to Meet You, I’m a Libertarian
Describing an incident in which the local utility company chose to – without notice – rip out some of his trees in order to replace his water meter as “Why People Hate Government,” John...
The day I found common ground with Michael Gerson
It’s not often that I find myself in agreement with Michael Gerson, but I thought there was some truth in his column today. He starts off quoting Obama: “Part of the reason that our...
The Toothless Mandate?
Commenter Boegiboe writes: I’m really confused about this whole health care fine stuff. Can someone (preferably a lawyer or law student) please explain what is wrong with FactCheck.org’s analysis of this law? It seems...
Replies on Compulsory Insurance
B-Rob offers “A simple explanation as to why the [individual mandate] is constitutional,” via the general welfare clauses, which allow Congress to pass “all Laws” that work toward “promot[ing] . . . the general...
National Review Gives Up, Tries Magic
I’d like to begin here by asking everyone to note that National Review has today put up an article by a certain Joel Rosenberg, who is presented as an expert on the Middle East. This is a wonderful coincidence, as I happen to know a few interesting things about Rosenberg. For instance, he claims to have predicted the last decade of Middle Eastern affairs by interpreting the Book of Ezekiel and other items of ancient Hebrew prophecy.
Question for Supporters of the Individual Mandate
Can I just get an admission that this makes the so-called individual mandate look pretty ridiculous? The individual mandate — that is, the affirmative requirement that all people must purchase health insurance from a...
Why we’re stuck with the War on Terror
Prompted by this entry from Greenwald, Erik and Tim Kowal kicked off a Gmail debate about why there’s such a startling degree of continuity between the Obama and Bush Administration’s counter-terror policies. The answer...
Damon Linker is not a pluralist
To pull a page from his own writing, Damon Linker isn’t just wrong; his wrongness is a threat to American democracy.
Anyone using Ubuntu?
Just started using Ubuntu 10.10 and I really like it, but I can’t stream on Netflix which just seems absurd. Other than that I think it’s a pretty great OS.
A failure of institutions ctd.
Commenter Sam M. writes, in response to my last post: But isn’t the full implication of this diconcerting to a lot of people? To affect this change, I think it presupposes that you accept that...
Wes Anderson: The College Years
The New York Times digs up Anderson and Owen Wilson’s contributions to Analecta, UT’s student literary magazine.
A failure of institutions
Ta-Nehisi Coates bumps a comment from commenter Sorn into a full-post. It’s well worth the read. Sorn talks about his experience in the military, how it first gave him a sense of what was...
William Jennings Bryan, Billy Graham & the Evolution of Christian Populism in America
Will Wilkinson has a really fascinating piece up over at Democracy in America on the effects the cold-war on American Protestantism, and particularly the influence of Billy Graham thanks to President Eisenhower and news...
Pentagon: We’ll Stop Enforcing DADT
All branches of the U.S. Armed Forces will stop enforcing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell pending the outcome of the Obama administration’s appeal. It’s an admirable testimony to the respect our society has for courts...
Sophocles: Philoctetes and Wounded Warriors
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...
