I am grateful for the incentive Jason’s rebuttal provides to study conservative thinker Michael Oakeshott. However, I respectfully disagree with Jason’s conclusion that “esteem[ of] the present … on account of its familiarity” suffices...
Because I’m at least a year behind when it comes to movies, I did not watch Harry Potter this weekend. I’ll probably wait until this time next year, when the crowds have died down...
Downblog, Tim Kowal writes: [T]here is an impression—mistaken, in my view—that people who advocate to maintain existing policies are “conservatives,” and people who advocate to change them are “liberals.” […] This approach, however, renders...
~by RTod When I was in high school I briefly embraced Communism. I did so for all the reasons white suburban 16 years olds often do: Communism was defiant and rebellious, seemed at...
I still haven’t seen Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Deux yet, but I hear the epilogue is poorly handled. I was sort of agnostic about it in the book. Epilogues are hard....
June Thomas at Slate thinks that Dan Savage is behaving like a bully toward Marcus Bachmann. Bachmann, the husband of right-wing firebrand, Rep. Michele Bachmann, and is a proponent of reparative therapy to “fix”...
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on Weekend Plans Post: Batchin’ ItDude. That's awesome! Mr. Blue Sky is one of those that strikes me as a cheat code for "awesome". Wh… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25This strikes me as a failure that would have been avoidable with skilled people in a handful of impo…
on Weekend Plans Post: Batchin’ ItThe chorus I sing with is having our spring shows this weekend. https://www.voicesofhopecc.org/conce…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Yet another review on Snow White. She has serious spoilers for the plot. Probably the biggest tell w… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25I would say that Trump clearly believes Tariffs are a net positive to the economy and not (at best)… on Open Mic for the week of 3/31/25Above, you give a fairly insightful statement: " All he needed to do was to do nothing substantively…
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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