There’s a New York Times report out today confirming that the CIA was more enthusiastic about protecting and utilizing...
Month: November 2010
Some people move from pillar to post. Some can’t hold a steady job. In my case, I...
…or is the site not only running faster, but looks and feels pretty damn good, too?
This is Jon Rowe and I am going to be a new blogger here. But I am...
“Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke“. Have a happy weekend!
The best thing I’ve read all week, by a long shot, has been David Hart’s musings on...
Maximum rock’n’soul: If you ask me what the problem is with the radio today, I’d start with...
Michael Drew makes a number of good points in the comments to the Simpson-Bowles post. Essentially, he...
“The whole problem with the world is that fools & fanatics are always so certain of themselves,...
You think I’m a curmudgeon? Writing about “party schools” and their legacy students, Margaret Soltan ups the...
Seven Against Thebes is a war play that shows no war. Rivaling the Homeric epics in its...
(This post is part of an ongoing series about Western culture and politics, and how the potential...
Many of the tax reforms are excellent. Simplifying the tax code, while reducing overall income tax rates...
Read this hilarious blog post from a New York chef defending “Four Loko,” a controversial alcoholic energy...
The King Drinks by Jacob Jordaens 1638-40 Oil on canvas, 152 x 204 cm Musée du Louvre,...
…and which make better translations? I find Rousseau more readable in English; Montesquieu, in French. Voltaire was...
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines....
I’ve been noticing a game lately played in the bookish corners of the left side of American...
Jason’s post on what is properly called Armistice Day, and the end of the myth of the nobility...
