St. Jerome Meditating 1525-30 Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen
Month: November 2010
Thoreau of Unqualified Offerings is well worth reading.
In my last post I noted, provocatively, that there is more evidence for President Obama’s “mere Christianity,”...
“To the extent that Washington is "broken" (and I’d argue it’s less broken than some suggest) it’s...
It’s a rare day indeed that I get to say this, but today I’m quite proud of my...
During World War II, Brigadier General S.L.A. Marshall asked average soldiers how they conducted themselves in battle....
I am not an economist, nor do I play one on the internet. In fact, I’ve never...
In my first substantive post I suggested not only that perhaps the stimulus had failed, but that...
Matt Yglesias plumps for monarchy, based on — what else? — human nature: [I]t seems inevitable in...
As a general rule, congressional bipartisanship is the political equivalent of the Crips and the Bloods banding...
I quoted Jeff MacGregor the other day on Bruce Springsteen and Ronald Reagan: Maybe the most interesting...
The Republican sweep of the House of Representatives is enough a triumph in its own right, but...
A few weeks ago, Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, a possible dark-horse candidate for the 2012 GOP presidential...
Interested in running? No? Read this New Yorker article about the United States’ marathon men anyway.
Via Jeffrey Goldberg comes a remarkably useful tool: the Pamela Geller Shrieking Harpy Rant Generator. I hereby...
The Food and Drug Administration will rule that caffeine is an unsafe substance to add to alcoholic...
There are many things that can be said about this incredibly depressing article – written by a...
Arizona has legalized medical marijuana, joining fifteen other states across the country that allow marijuana use for...
Seriously, I thought the Republicans were supposed to be protecting us from terrorists, cost what it may....
