Day: April 22, 2012

Does America Need a Draft? Hell No. IFRL-Mindiv-thom-holmes-556802-unsplash

Does America Need a Draft? Hell No.

BlaiseP April 22, 2012

Tom Ricks says we need a draft. This is nonsense. If we want to prevent stupid wars,...

The Zen of Twee IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-tate.vesuvius-in-eruption-with-a-view-over-the-islands-in-the-bay-of-naples-100

The Zen of Twee

David Ryan April 22, 2012

From the New York Magazine article The Twee Party: One afternoon last June, the quaint silhouette...

Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Variety reports that Snow White has been banned in Lebanon. But it's okay because it's about Gal Gad…
pillsy in reply to InMD on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaAll Biden had to do to defuse this issue was leave Trump’s immigration EOs in place and use his bull…
InMD in reply to pillsy on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaI don't see it that way and I think what's happened to the Republican party cuts to the opposite con…
Jaybird in reply to pillsy on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaBecause early signals are strong that Trump 2.0’s deportation policies are courting a similar backla…
Jaybird in reply to Dark Matter on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaEh, I see what he's going for. If you've got a Principal-Agent Problem, one of the solutions is to h…
Jaybird in reply to InMD on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaWhen an American Citizen gets murdered by an undocumented visitor, we agree that that's *BAD*, but l…
pillsy in reply to InMD on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaCruelty and being vindictive will not play well, especially when it is so trivially easy to trot out…
pillsy in reply to InMD on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaOne out of two major parties is not going to be able to consistently persevere liberal democracy if…
InMD in reply to pillsy on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaI think that's a misread of the political dynamic. Cruelty and being vindictive will not play well,…
Jaybird in reply to InMD on The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego GarciaOh, the Establishment Republicans were feckless af. One thing I still haven't seen is why "what have…