What’s the Matter with New York?
Two months ago, which is, like, 49 months in blog-months, Kevin Drum suggested there was a very good essay to be written called “Why People Hate Liberals.” This is not that essay. But it reminded me...
Monthly Archive: September 2012
Sit Down and Shut Up! (Because we are many and you are not)
This piece by Rebecca Solnit serves as the best example, but there are countless others as well. In short, many self-proclaimed liberals can’t stand that (1) their guy might be just as morally dubious...
Tales from the Nightstand: When She Woke by Hillary Jordan
“She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness. Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in...
Teacher Hatred and Class Warfare
(There’s a fairly lengthy thought-piece introduction here. If you’re simply trawling for education policy arguments, make like a choose-your-own-adventure reader and turn directly to Section II.) I. One of the best parts about being...
Hate Crimes on the Razor’s Edge
by Glyph Last week, sixteen Amish men and women in Ohio were convicted of federal Hate Crimes and could serve several decades in Federal prison for cutting the hair and beards of other Amish in the...
Fairness and the Agent’s Cut
In the spirit of American football season, here are a few quick questions relating to NFL agents and their cut of the players’ pay. As far as I can tell, there seems to be...
Wait… aren’t the men on the right supposed to be the manly men?
Yeah, yeah, I get that Republican men are stereotypically big on guns, Chuck Norris, and being able to put up posters of Playboy centerfolds at the office without having to worry about that it...
Friday Jukebox
Well, since no one else has done a jukebox, I’ll put one up. I’m crushing on Curtis Mayfield today, but since, as the token Canuck, I feel compelled to offer some CanCon, here’s Bran Van 3000...
The Problem With Mitt Romney Is Mitt Romney…And His Message
So, it’s not as funny as the Hunger Games Bad Lip Reading, but it’s exactly the sort of thing I need this election season. Fight nonsense with nonsense. The singing part gets me every time…. In...
Boomer Sooner
It has come to my attention that Oklahoma will soon be an “Open Carry” state. My views on gun control are… well… let’s just say that I’m glad Canada doesn’t have a 2nd Amendment....
The Depressing Reality That is Pakistan.
News connected to Pakistan is a bit like reading a George RR Martin novel. It’s grim. It’s depressing. There’s too many characters that come in and out of nowhere and the narrative never seems...
A Heretic’s Pilgrimage: My Journey to the 2012 Values Voter Summit
“Who would you rather kiss, Paul Ryan or Justin Bieber?” I turn to see a group of very young women standing directly behind me, each giddy with excitement. It is 6:30 on a Friday...
Voting Part II: Vote Like No One’s Watching
For the impatient: I’m endorsing Gary Johnson. Recap: As discussed in Part I, flipping one individual vote will not decide the presidential election. For voters in virtually every state, we know this with 100%...
Mugged By Their Own Narrative
As Team Romney continues the process of self-immolation, various journalists have discerned a pattern in conservative reactions to his collapse. Echoing Richard Cohen’s column from several days ago, Fareed Zakaria notices that Romney is...
There Was No Civil Liberties Mandate
Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic has a widely read explanation of why he cannot, on moral grounds, do as he did in 2008 and vote for Barack Obama. It’s a long piece and it’s...
The Birth of a (Whiskey) Barrel
Yesterday someone sent me a link to a cool video at Devour. A description from the site: A look inside Brown-Forman Cooperage in Louisville, Kentucky where Jack Daniels, unlike any other major distiller in...
New Facts on the Elizabeth Warren UPL Issue
Professor Jacobson has uncovered this morning a case in which Elizabeth Warren entered an appearance in a federal appellate court as a representative of a Massachusetts client in a case that appears to have...
Resistance is Futile…Our Culture Will Adapt to Service Us…
The release of the recent Life Under Drones report has the League and the blogosphere (See also: Sully’s roundup) as a whole abuzz with the ramifications of drone warfare. I have already made my personal affirmative case for the...
The Drone at the Door
Yesterday the international law clinics of NYU and Stanford released an in-depth study of drone strikes in Pakistan, looking at the controversial practice’s legality, efficacy, and how it affects innocent Pakistanis who must live...
