So I spent 35-45 minutes today trying to get a fly out of my bedroom. You know...
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.
I realize I’m a little behind on this book (it came out last year), but my wife...
Noah Millman writes: But if we get a true dollar crisis, that calculus no longer obtains. If...
He says he’s in against Specter. Good for him. Pennsylvania is going deep blue. And the Penn...
“If you were defining “God” as “Jaybird”, allow me to back up and say that I absolutely...
Mark’s sharp post the other day on PZ Myers (building off a similarly sharp post by Br....
Chuck got a Third Season. Even if it doesn’t start until after the Winter Olympics here in...
At a minimum, Obama seemed alive to the moral and legal ambiguities implied by the issue. Not...
So I’m working at my church today and there’s a wedding. It’s all going more or less...
Even deciding where the two Qaeda suspects in Pakistani custody will be kept over the long term...
ED writes: I’ve mentioned before that one of the greatest threats to liberty is the imperial presidency. ...
With the apparent (and horrifically bloody) demise of the Tamil Tigers it’s worth I think reviewing the...
“It’s a good thing I’m a paranoid son of a bitch.” Ethan Kanin (former Chief of Staff...
Here’s what I wrote the other day: Now they [The Taliban] are more like a mafia, in...
To James Poulos: Having Terry [McAuliffe] around is like having the Geico gecko’s uncharismatic loan shark cousin...
The text of Obama’s commencement address is here. – Some thoughts on Obama’s speech starting with conspiracy...
Back by popular demand positive comments from Dave and Will and the fact that with Scott gone...
Reading over Will’s post about Geert Wilders’ manifesto to save Western Civilization got me thinking. Not so...
Goes to Mr. Coates: But the whole game is based on a deep ignorance, and arrogance–an inability...
