Elizabeth Warren's missed opportunity.
Chris Dierkes
Chris Dierkes (aka CJ Smith). 29 years old, happily married, adroit purveyor and voracious student of all kinds of information, theories, methods of inquiry, and forms of practice. Studying to be a priest in the Anglican Church in Canada. Main interests: military theory, diplomacy, foreign affairs, medieval history, religion & politics (esp. Islam and Christianity), and political grand bargains of all shapes and sizes.
It was nice to see Br. Freddie back this week at the League. Something that seems fitting...
This Rolling Stone article on Stanley McChrystal is causing a stir. An aide has already been fired...
I guess this is inevitable, but seriously FoxSports WTF? Do you have to headline Tiger Woods’ round...
From Joe Klein’s good piece on Afghanistan: “Karzai is not incompetent,” a Western diplomat told me. “He...
As a surprise to no one with some understanding of the Afghan context, instead of relying on...
From ESPN’s Tim Legler: Ron Artest, although regularly displaying a complete disregard for sensible offensive decision-making, can...
I just lost 8 minutes of my life I’ll never get back watching the new Gaga video...
Last week I wrote a post on my other site about how the Palestinians should organize a...
From Huffpo: They also note this weekend’s release of “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,” a...
Around the tubes….LOG Alum Br. Jamelle Bouie and friend of the Ordinary Gents Sr. Dara Lind are...
I don’t take to the pages of Ordinary Gents to brag very often (I hope), but I...
Br. Jason writes: I’ve never really believed that it was possible to reconcile Christianity with homosexuality. The...
John Bolton writing in the Wall Street Journal: We therefore face a stark, unattractive reality. There are...
The Jukebox spins back to the late 60s this evening to highlight one of the most underrated...
Br. Jamelle goes on the attack against radical centrism of the Thomas Friedman variety. He writes: The...
For those of you losing sleep awaiting my take on Zizek’s commentary on Christian mysticism and politics,...
Matt Taibi writes: The Republicans, meanwhile, are in the difficult position of trying to sell Wall Street’s...
All those mind-boggling financial products that nobody understood were no help to the U.S. economy, and led...
As an update to this earlier post, Blanche Lincoln’s derivatives rules have passed out of committee.
