Br. Will links to an interesting review of Christopher Caldwell’s new book Reflections on the Revolution in...
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.
You should really read Bob Wright’s rebuttal to Jerry Coyne’s pathetic attempt at a criticism of Bob’s...
From Time’s Tim McGirk: Law enforcement officials say that a wildfire now raging in Santa Barbara’s Los...
Steve Hynd over at Newshoggers has a very sharp post comparing aspects of the Afghanistan and Iraqi...
From Daniel Gross at Newsweek: After the stock-research scandals of the 1990s, analysts were required to disclose...
From Religion News at Pew Forum: The three men were locals who were said to have once...
Steven Pearlstein in his op-ed makes a fairly dumb classic Washington Post (false) moral equivalence between death...
Ezra Klein writes: What’s been striking, however, is the implicit argument that this is somehow a simple...
From the Wiki from Jean Baudrillard (I know it’s a wiki but this is pretty good)–my emphasis...
Sorry for the blogging silence of late. I’m going through some difficult personal stuff, mostly relating to...
Last night on the Colbert Report, Stephen C. referred to Fancy Farm, KY (it has to do...
Doing a quick youtube research for Mike @ The Big Stick–he asked about a core exercise I...
As per Jaybird’s recommendations, I tried a workout of tabatas today. I did it slightly differently than...
I just finished Friday–a day before my 30th birthday–a 12 week super intense training regime. Have you...
The lengths companies will go to use any available eye-line to try to sell me something is...
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy This is Sec. Clinton on...
Nancy Gibbs has penned a thoughtful piece on the question of assisted suicide (or euthanasia depending on...
From NyTimes: India served notice on Sunday that it remains opposed to legally binding targets to reduce...
I know I’m behind on this one but Conor F. interviewed Mssr. Instapundit about a month ago...
Poll out today on the GOP race. Romney, who was a front-runner for the 2008 nomination, came...
