mea culpa, and explanations
An emailer wrote me last night, in regards to the Bloggingheads clip, to say that I “owe it Mickey Kaus to apologize”. I thought I did! In case it isn’t clear, though, let me...
Author: Freddie
away from Joe=towards success?
Reihan links approvingly to this piece by Patrick Ruffini, as does James. It’s well-written, smart, as Ruffini’s work usually is. But I don’t know, man.
my blog post titles demonstrate my ironic detachment and caustic verve
You really do have to wonder, at this point, if there’s ever a time when the average Gawker blogger says to himself, you know, I really am just a whiny, angry bitch, who just...
Jindal: debt is bad when we say it is
I’m open to hearing a defense of Bobby Jindal from Matt Yglesias’s allegations. But I am having a hard time imagining what such a defense could mean. Bobby Jindal was not out there beating...
the moderating influence of the technocratic Republican
Predictions are a mugs game, and mine are worse than most, so take this with a grain of salt. But I see two likely narratives emerging concerning Arnold Schwarzenegger, neither of which I like....
can I just say…
I understand that there are arguments to be made against the practice of talking politics at award shows or similar. I don’t want awards show recipients to be making on-air harangues about unrelated partisan...
Sunday Poem
Lament by Rainer Maria Rilke Everything is far and long gone by. I think that the star glittering above me has been dead for a million years. I think there were tears in the...
Prescott Bush and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls
Now, I’m not a big fan of the shadowy, Illumanti-style cabal that secretly pulls the strings and keesp you and me down. But if our scheming entrenched WASP power brokers can’t steal the skulls...
love of… what?
Daniel Larison has a sharp post up (which Andrew has linked to) that I think really demands attention, as his discussion of patriotism and criticism of one’s country really hits home. Daniel writes One...
Apple v. Microsoft
Cast your mind back, gentle reader, to the heady days of early 2002, when the original Xbox was released. I remember it well, not only because I was intrigued by the closing gap between...
from my ink-stained hands
I found this post to be a good rundown of why the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act is such a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad law. As someone who has been madly in...
the foul rag and bone shop of real politics
You may have to put some of this in your Helen Rittelmeyer-style “things I believe but cannot prove” file. Fair warning. I read stuff like this, from John, and am intrigued, and I always...
more on Kaus
Conor Friedersdorf and Erik are joing Daniel Larison in pushing back strongly against me in the comments of my previous post. Like I said in the update, I must concede to them that Kaus...
the continuing fraud of Mickey Kaus
Daniel Larison once took me to task (check the comments) for saying that Mickey Kaus is a faux-liberal; it’s been my opinion that Kaus’s “I’m a liberal, just a reformer!” shtick is just that,...
goodnight, Sunday, and Monday tomorrow
So I had a long post all written out, and I don’t know, maybe I will rework it someday. It has been an emotionally wrenching day today and I am spent in the good...
socialism creep
Okay, so I can’t quite follow this. I’m sure Peter’s right about the merits of The International; I haven’t seen it and don’t plan to. But I have a hard time following the logical...
Two words, Benjamin: Economic Oblivion
I’m not normally a declinist, gloom and doom-ism being the kissing cousin of the absurd optimistic teleology that has also been, strangely, permanently en vogue. But one place where I’m afraid I’m almost entirely pessimistic is the survival...
M. van Buren: 25 Random Things about Me
25 Random Things About Me by Martin Van Buren, CITIZEN of the REPUBLIC 1) Whilst campaigning for Gen. Jackson’s reelection in our nation’s Capitol in 1832, I became embroiled in a heated argument with...
Mushroom Kingdom weirdness
I’m pretty curious, naturally, and I have some friends who (like myself) enjoy inflicting psychic distress on each other to generate a few laughs and demonstrate affection. So I’ve had a lot of links...
