Monthly Archive: July 2012

The first 10 seconds of this makes me wonder if the script writers for Batman: The Dark Knight Rises read our site. Maybe Russell has a copyright case?

Lily Raff McCaulou is part of a new generation of hunters that has come about in the last few years. These hunters are an offshoot of the locavore movement which is made up of...

Josh Marshall’s got a potentially big scoop for the 2012 campaign, one that could make Mitt Romney’s summer even hotter and longer than it’ll be for the rest of us. Democrats have put forth a concerted...

So one of the hot topics on Memeorandum today is a study by a Tea-Party affiliated group called the Doctor and Patient Medical Association claiming that, as the Daily Caller’s headline proclaims, “83% of...

Seventeen magazine recently patted itself on the back for responding to a petition drive led by an enterprising teenage girl, Julia Bluhm. The magazine now will present only non-Photoshopped girls in its editorial spreads and covers. This...

Even before he was inaugurated, the so-called Bush Tax Cuts (BTCs) of 2001 and 2003 loomed over the Obama Presidency. On the campaign trail, Obama promised to extend the cuts for those making under...

Finding the perfect middle ground between saying too much and looking like you’ve something to hide: From the start of the campaign, this has been one of Mitt Romney’s most important tasks. Even this...

This essay was originally intended for Mindless Diversions but, as you can probably tell, it veered off into dangerous territory fairly quickly… so I’m putting it here. In the 1950’s and 1960’s, there was...

It’s not everyday that one of our regular readers decides to take the plunge and sashay on down the aisle.  (Or at least I don’t think it is.  Perhaps it happens all the time,...

So in my listening to some Dubstep (which I consider research), I stumbled across the soundtrack to Sucker Punch which, I have come to find out, is actually a movie about Project MKUltra and, specifically, Monarch...

I was going to ask everybody what their ideal, but realistic healthcare reform proposal would be. The basic point was to show that once we ignored political viability as a constraint on practical proposals,...

Rose writes: “My ethical leanings are reasonably anti-consequentialist. That is, I don’t think what makes shoplifting a soda right or wrong is a matter of the unhappiness it causes.”

It’s amazing to me that kindergarten remains a controversial subject, but a specimen in one of those great laboratories of governmental ideas, the state legislatures, has managed to come up with this…

So I’ve obviously been tinkering a great deal, and I apologize if your sub-blog is weird right now. I’ll get to it! I promise! I’m not sure if this will be the redesign, or...

I plan on heading to DC the weekend of September 14th to do some blogging on the 2012 Values Voter Summit.  So I’m giving a heads up to anyone and everyone that might want...

Did anyone else read Ubik? Anyone else planning to post? If so I’ve got some thoughts I’ll write up over the weekend. But I’m concerned it would just be me talking to myself.

Judge Richard Posner succinctly iterates my own thoughts about the Supreme Court leaks specifically and more generally the GOP and the conservative movement. Money quote: “I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started...