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...
I’ve not got a whole heck of a lot to add to this very good paragraph from Glenn Greenwald on the whole hubbub over the propriety of the Obama Administration’s entirely speculative suggestions (with...
If you, like me, are sick and tired of the news cycle and the constant drumming up of faux scandals, baseless accusations, and other things Politikal & Absurd, and wish to waste your time...
So here we are, just a few weeks out from a federal election, albeit a non-Presidential election, where at least one, and possibly both, Houses of Congress is likely to change hands. There’s certainly...
The Old Fools by Philip Larkin What do they think has happened, the old fools, To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose It’s more grown-up when your mouth hangs open and drools,...
So the story of Mitchell Heisman’s suicide is bizarre in a way that most suicides are not in that it was premeditated for several years before it was finally undertaken. Heisman took his life,...
As some of you may recall, I recently read Kevin A. Carson’s Studies in Mutualist Political Economy. Here are some thoughts about this sprawling, challenging, almost-brilliant book. Short form: I am unconvinced that what...
Gays… aren’t more promiscuous than straights. Or at least, so says the dating population of OK Cupid. Other findings? Women are more bi-curious, and Canada is a very, very gay place. And this gem:...
It’s stories like this (via Balko)- in which a Dem-affiliated PAC attacks Rand Paul for being “soft on crime” – that make me roll my eyes whenever someone tries to tell me that the...
So the Obama administration is hinting it may appeal the courts’ decision to overturn Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Writes Thoreau, about the appeal of the DOMA decision — another one Obama claims he’s against:...
If God cannot prove His omnipotence (or infinity) to human beings because they are neither omnipotent or omniscient or infinite, couldn’t God simply make all human beings into omniscient, omnipotent, and infinite beings? If...
Military occupation is the leading cause of suicide terrorist attacks over the last 30 years. So says a study partially funded by that hippie collective, the Defense Department’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency: “We have lots...
After running through a litany of Woodrow Wilson’s misdeeds as President, Radley Balko asks: But I think a more interesting question than Why does the right hate Wilson? is, given all of this, along...
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25It's just... he just... like... it's such a blizzard of bull that I'm hesitating on where to even st… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25He is indeed assuming that... but I wondered if what he said about China was true. I mean, if he sta… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25If you just want to know how bad things will be bad, you can probably find a best-case scenario by l… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25That would be why I totally ignored Telegraph/Yahoo after looking at it and did my own thing.
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