Dr. Frankenstein Crafts a New Party
Some time ago I announced I was switching my party affiliation to Independent. Five months later a sort of personal malaise about politics has settled into my bones and I pay attention to public...
Daily Archive: April 23, 2013
The Ghost of Self-Deportation
Check out the video above, if you can, to see Senator Durbin have a relatively congenial back-and-forth with Kansas Secretary of State (and intellectual star of the anti-immigration reform lobby) Kris Kobach over DREAMers...
Vive La France!
Félicitations, nos amis. C’est la triomphe de la liberté, égalité, et l’amour. Célébrer et soyez joyeux!
America’s Back, Baby!
In the context of my other post on Sullivan I wanted to highlight something else he penned recently:
Nothing Brings out the Worst in Andrew Sullivan like Islamic Terrorism
The Dish, an invaluable aggregator of news, opinions, and general interest minutia, to which I am a subscriber, has been more blindly emotional and demagogic than usual in recent days. The Tsarnaevs’ bombing of the...
What’s the Matter with Susie?
We do a lot of voting in my class. It helps kids learn about the democratic process and all that crap. When we do it, I usually talk about motivations for making a particular...
