Monthly Archive: December 2011

Boycotts ain’t what they used to be.

This post is prompted by three things: this conversation between Chris Carr and Matty, a recent conversation with my sister about the various hints our father (still in excellent health) has dropped about how...

Okay, first things first. The title of this post is (intentionally) misleading. This post isn’t about millionaire small business owners. This post is about the very, very small fraction of small business owners who pay...

Since it’s Opposite Week still, at least nominally, I figured today is as good as any to post my favorite explicitly pro-socialist anthem of all time. Larry Kirwan’s voice has a tendency to be...

I know this is a few days old, but while we’re on the subject of internet trolls, it seems worth pointing to this masterpiece of the anti-trolling genre from one of our old friends...

I spent yesterday doing employer’s paperwork chores: confirming our workmen’s comp policy is in force, contracting with a payroll service, scheduling delivery of materials, bitching about freight charges. This too is boat building. I’ve...

I’m going to be doing so over at www.sulia.com; and I’ve been invited to bring along however many of the blog-folk here (i.e., front-pagers) would like to join. Shoot me an email if you...

If I were president, I would start with a round of mass imprisonments. As Machiavelli advises, I’d do it quickly, perhaps all in one night. A few tens of thousands should be enough. No,...

Attempting to arrest his meteoric flameout from the GOP’s good graces, Rick Perry is running this ad on TV in Iowa: I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian, but you don’t need...

Responding to the ad above, Allahpundit writes: The “unlike some people” is merely implied, but this one’s so heavy-handed that he might as well have tacked on a few shots of Newt with his...

So apparently Alec Baldwin was kicked off an American Airlines flight for electronic device use:

I wanted to flag this Guardian report because, as League regulars will remember, it gets to the heart of what became a rather contentious debate ’round here during the London riots: Were the rioters self-consciously political...

My iFriend Alan Jacobs writes: [O]ur belief that photography straightforwardly captures the–thing–in–itself is a sadly naïve one. (Beginning birdwatchers always want photographic guides because they think photography captures birds “as they really are,” but...

I’m tired of liberals getting duped. Most conservative politicians don’t unswervingly support the free market, even if they profess as much. They’re pro-business capitalists more than free-market champions. The typical Republican will back bailing...

In the comment thread of my My life as a free-rider post I wrote: “I guess what was on my mind is there’s a sort of self-righteous smugness in this post, or in my cashmere sweater...

The prospect of Donald Trump moderating a debate is what finally made things click. It occurred to me the other day as I was leaving a comment elsewhere: if someone had written a TV...