Author: Freddie

It seems the absurdity of Slate’s subheads and jumpheads that I’m always complaining about has caught the attention of Mickey Kaus, as well….

from Poem 64 by Catullus, translated by Horace Gregory (Some people don’t like Gregory’s translation because of his somewhat freewheeling liberties with the text. But I find his work to be by far the...

The Magic, Nuggets and Cavaliers are all led by stars whose last names are usually first names. And the Lakers star isn’t that far from being the same.

in congratulating Ms. Dara Lind and Mr. Will Wilson on their graduating college. Now go get ’em.

Worried that conservatives will really make a roaring comeback? Read Robert Stacy McCain, and be assuaged. Joe, neither Dreher nor Frum is a professional talk-radio host, and I’m guessing neither one of them would...

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (translated and modified by Edward Fitzgerald) 1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter...

Briefly– it’s standard practice for the defenders of the NBA to laugh off anyone who thinks that the officiating is bad, to act as if any perceived bias is just crazy conspiracy theorizing, and...

Reihan quotes Jeffrey Toobin: In every major case since he became the nation’s seventeenth Chief Justice, Roberts has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the state over the condemned, the executive branch over...

So on the occasion of the apparent demise of the Tamil Tigers, it’s worth pointing out that it was never in fact true, as was often stated in the days and years following 9/11,...

The Golf Links Sarah Norcliffe Leghorn The golf links lie so near the mill That almost every day The laboring children can look out And see the men at play.

It really seems like the rise of the pocket computer is upon us. In many ways, the iPhone was first past the pole, but it is being joined by ever-more feature laden Blackberries, the...

John Schwenkler, via Rodney Balko, approves of this video from the Cato Institute. Two separate but important points: one, the law in question is lousy and patently unconstitutional; two, this video is incomplete, and...

One thing to bear in mind about the free riders on the United States and its defense capabilities is to me the salient aspect of America’s defense budget in general: we could reduce our...

The Wood Pile by Robert Frost Out walking in the frozen swamp one gray day I paused and said, ‘I will turn back from here. No, I will go on farther- and we shall...

So before Star Trek last night– which is great, by the way– they showed the preview for the upcoming GI Joe movie. This is an old riff of mine, but it’s worth blogging. The...

Wesleyan University is in my hometown. I have many connections to the university, which I won’t share now. I was in fact on campus when the terrible events of Wednesday occured. I wish I...

 There’s been quite a conversation on imperialism abrewing. This is Louise-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran. A French war hero, he was the most successful of their generals fighting in the French and Indian...

Many critics of this post insist that I am wrong, which I may be. Some further that I am uncaring, which I’m not. And a few that I am interested in pursuing eugenics against...