Indefensible
I do not have time to write a full piece on the revelations about the Obama Administration’s continuation* – and indeed, apparent expansion – of the Bush Administration’s policy of obtaining blanket phone records...
Monthly Archive: June 2013
No Other Word…
Last week my daughter and two of her friends were involved in a terrible car accident that claimed the life of one of the other girls. My daughter suffered no serious injuries and will...
How the Tea Party Movement Is Often About Things Uglier Than Fiscal Restraint, and a Challenge to Public Conservatives Who Claim Otherwise
In this post I am going to attempt to present a brief anecdote that, at least in part, acts as an answer to a question I often hear regarding the Tea Party movement. After...
Comment Rescue: A Priorism in Libertarianism
In Tod Kelly’s recent “mansplaining” thread, Shazbot posts the following: Yeah, the problem with extremely principled libertarianism is the a priorism of their reasoning. (As sometimes self-ascribed libertarian William Buckley famously charged.) I’ve been...
Driving Blind: Design on Fire
“Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.” Pitchfork breaks their layout and my eyes with this review of the new Daft Punk album. Cara Ellison writes about...
Driving Blind: Crime Fiction and Strange Bedfellows
“All the things which had uses. All the mountains which had names. We’ll give them new names, but the old names are there, somewhere in time…” Noam Chomsky lists the many paths to disaster....
Some Quick Updates on the “Steven Seagal as US Ambassador” Story
(And, by the way, what were the odds before yesterday that I would have ever been able to write that headline?)
According to David Brooks, All Morality is Local
I normally try to stay away from taking pot shots at David Brooks columns, but today’s raises a question that informs a lot of my political critique and which I reflect on a lot personally....
Grand Old Party Needs a Brand New Song
The College Republican National Committee has published a rueful assessment of the GOP, commencing with the pull quote taken from a focus group: “I would say your image is all wrong”. That’s only the...
Leaguefest Final Schedule and Meeting Places!
It’s hard to believe we’re just four days away from the start of Leaguefest. Below the fold is the final schedule. If you are planning on attending any events at all over the weekend,...
Driving Blind: Fake Geeks and a Dying Middle Class
And we’re back. Friday afternoon I got sidetracked trying to buy a car, but that fell through because the one I was looking at had already been sold. That’s what happens when you take...
The Very Weird Tales of Steven Seagal
Pretend for a moment that you are a highly visible Republican Congressman needing to get the Russians to come to the table to discuss items of mutual national interest.
Game of Thrones: “The Rains Of Castamere”
I wasn’t planning on writing about Game of Thrones today, but here we are. Saturday night I was at a Mexican restaurant with several friends when the conversation turned to Westeros. “You guys better...
Sunday Evening Theism
I wish I could offer a fuller response to the post Christopher’s “Sunday Morning Atheism.” He raised, powerfully and cogently, some of the issues that do—or should—plague any believer. Sincerity in a religious endeavor...
In The First Circle Bookclub!
(Our kickoff post is here, and our discussion posts are here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.) Ah, the denouement. We’ve had some time to catch up, I hope (and if we...
Some mansplaining on women’s access to the workplace
A whole lot of the discussion going on in the threads of my Erick Erickson posts is making me cringe. I honestly can’t tell if people (read: men) are being purposefully obtuse to score...
