Does anyone else think that Oregon’s blur offense is uniquely ill-suited to the long break between college...
Month: January 2011
I remember a friend once commenting, “The truth is I’m unnaturally beautiful.” It’s one of those comments...
I spent some of my lunch hour delving into Jared Lee Loughner’s pre-massacre writings. The media generally...
This discussion about the Tuscon shootings, as necessary and intelligent as it has been, is also exhausting to me. The only...
If you have a spare hour, I’d highly recommend watching this dialog on the Giffords shooting and...
This is an appropriate time to turn back, once again, to one of my favorite John Derbyshire...
Bob Cheeks wants an example of Glenn Beck being inflammatory. Well that’s Beck’s whole schtick, and while I...
A lot of conspiracy theorists are considered right-wing because they have a deep mistrust of the government....
Anyone trying to understand what happened on Saturday needs to read this piece in Mother Jones, which...
Radley Balko writes: [I]t’s worth remembering that the government initiates violence against its own citizens every day...
An expressionist horror film currently in wide release, Black Swan deserves recognition for dealing with such heady...
Andrew Sullivan is live-blogging the shooting today so that’s a very good resource. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was...
The comments on Mark’s post below have grown to the point where I’m not sure I want...
Bad science used to justify torture: “. . . much of the research cited in okaying these...
Given my post this morning arguing that there is no more evidence for a narrow interpretation of...
“Is there anyone out there who thinks Obama is going to come to the podium on Monday...
In the comments to Jason’s post yesterday afternoon defending the act of reading the Constitution on the...
Seriously. This isn’t exactly surprising, but Tim Carney has done yeomen’s work by digging through Wikileaks for...
…it’s authority. And fangs. The day will come when drug-hunting dogs will seem as cruel as human-hunting...
My former co-blogger Timothy Sandefur is spot-on here, regarding the GOP decision to read the Constitution in...
