I was thinking about the loss of my home state’s only major league sports team, the Whalers,...
Freddie
Freddie deBoer used to blog at lhote.blogspot.com, and may again someday. Now he blogs here.
Julian Sanchez, a libertarian, recently wrote a smart post about “weak manning,” a fallacious kind of reasoning...
Conor flagged a piece in the Times by Walter Kirn, author of Lost in the Meritocracy: The...
In his latest column, Ross Douthat repeats an old canard from the campaign trail: That last statistic...
Leda and the Swan by William Butler Yeats A SUDDEN blow: the great wings beating still Above...
that this Sarah Palin resignation was made under duress, because of some very negative information that’ll come...
I’m really intrigued by and happy about this Infinite Jest project, and A Supposedly Fun Blog, a...
the imagined genesis of an article *ring*ring*ring* “Hello, this is Troy Patterson.” “TP! David Plotz here!” “David!...
Ever write something in haste and quickly regret it? Yeah. Mistakes were made, the least of which...
There are many tics of contemporary debate that bother me, but none more so than the enforcement...
Malcolm Gladwell can be very frustrating to read when he isn’t on his game, but I think...
In light of the decision by the Supreme Court in the now-famous New Haven firefighters case– or,...
Kentucky River Junction by Wendell Berry to Ken Kesey & Ken Babbs Clumsy at first, fitting together...
If you read my post from earlier today, please read this one by Reihan over at the...
Digsby, the IM client I use, has added a Twitter feed, so I’ve created a dummy Twitter...
Erik pronounces Reihan’s latest column a disappointment. I’m not sure why. Oh, the column is very wrong-headed,...
This story is making the rounds. I think it has a lot of troubling race-baiting going on...
…the stones Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than...
read and consider James’s response to my earlier post.
