Why Third Parties Can’t Solve What You Think They Can
The two-party system isn’t to blame for America’s War on Drugs. We are.
Author: Tod Kelly
Rod Dreher’s Battle Against “Portland Sharia” [Updated]
In what might be the most inept argument I have seen him make, the American Conservative pundit calls out my hometown. I respond.
Forget boycotting for bigotry — can you boycott a business owner for being dumber than a sack-o-hammers?
Via many, many emailers comes this story in The Oregonian about a new, high-end yuppie grocery store in Portland that will open this week – and then probably close the week after that:
Clinton: A Dilemna
Tod Kelly considers Hillary’s probable 2016 nod, as well as his own “lesser-of” dilemma.
Sunday Night Bar Fight: The Rove vs. Huckabee Test
I’ve been meaning to post this thought experiment for over a year now, and the threads of all our various Brendan Eich posts made me think now’s as good a time as any.
Tolerance is not the enemy of progress; it’s the tool.
Dennis Saunders is correct: When it comes to people like Mozilla’s Brendan Eich, we should practice tolerance. But not the sake of people like Brendan Eich.
Slow and steady wins the race, especially if it’s in bacon fat
I bet you can’t guess what the all-time most viewed post on Ordinary Times is.
Getting a Temperature Reading on Climate Change Politics
Gawker’s Adam Weinstein and the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Lawrence Torcello have each come out for the criminalization of climate-change denial. I’m curious to know what readers here think of this.
Is this weird, funny, or sad?
The twitterverse’s rather bizarre right-and-left alignment to cancel the Colbert Report for racism.
And then there were two…
… kind of, sort of. It turns out that my worries that the left might be starting down a troubling path are actually held by one OTer other than myself. It’s just that he’s...
The Right Path, Part II: Nate Silver and the Delegitimisation of Traditional Journalism and Objective Data
“Data that contradicts the Ideology is a lie; institutions that publish such data are the enemy; those individuals who consider such data are heretics.”
Evolution, the New Cosmos, and the Continued Need for Public Broadcasting (Retracted)
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s new Cosmos shows that the easiest way to eliminate the theory of evolution is to leave it up to the free market.
Splitters! : A few notes on ideology and what I mean when I say “the left”
One of the questions that’s coming up in the Right Path posts is, what do I mean when I say “the left?” Let me explain…
The Right Path, Part I: “To look more hard working”
The second in a four part series that argues that the left is headed down the same path toward the wilderness that the right began two decades ago. Before we look at the left, however, we must first examine the actual path blazed by movement conservatives.
But keep the comments to yourselves…
For those of you jonesing for both the return of baseball and a little political writing by Connor P, check out this piece over at TPM on Detroit and its Tigers. Money quote:
The Cheap-Ass Gourmet Cooking School: Roasting
We start our cooking school with one of the youngest cooking methods there is: Roasting.
