I sincerely hope
that after this incident, no one gives any more money to the American Conservative Union.
Author: Will
Paul Erhlich’s Greatest Hits
Inspired by David Harsanyi’s excellent take-down of Dr. John Holdren, newly-installed director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, I decided to to revisit the predictive track-record of Holdren’s erstwhile co-author,...
Nothing To See Here
One cost-free way for conservatives to appeal to minority voters would be to do a better job of policing internal discourse. After all, repeating “Party of Lincoln!” ad nauseum doesn’t really help things when...
Best. Craigslist Ad. Ever.
A sample: OK, let me start off by saying this f150 is only available for purchase by the manliest of men (or women). My friend, if it was possible for a vehicle to sprout...
The Greatest Scene Ever Filmed?
In honor of Bastille Day. If this doesn’t send chills up your spine, check your pulse:
Academic obscurantism for the sake of . . . what?
Among other relics from middle school, my CD case still contains well-worn copies of both Pinkerton and The Blue Album, so I read Jeffrey Rosenberg’s Rosenfeld’s undergraduate thesis on Weezer’s odd career arc with...
“But again, if the gentlemen said, ‘I like the way the swastika looked,’ and had clean criminal record, it’s possible we would allow that person in.”
A very frightening article from Salon on Neo-Nazis and the military.
On Blogging
Felix Salmon has some advice for prospective bloggers. The whole thing is worth reading, but this segment jumped out at me: As always, there’s a trade-off between quantity and quality. Should you write more,...
Friday Night Jukebox: Random Rules Edition
From the great American road trip album (apologies for the bizarre imagery in the video): Anyway, The Silver Jews are a pretty fantastic band. A few years ago, Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In the Aeroplane...
A figurehead for Crunchy Cons?
Paging Rod Dreher and E.D. Kain – Prince Charles sounds like your kind of royalty.
Annals of Essential Police Equipment
See TPM on “chopper porn.” The accompanying photo gallery is priceless.
New Adventures in Historical Revisionism
Ron Christie – whose credentials as a historian are, shall we say, limited – is also shocked that Obama would think to give other countries credit for helping end the Cold War: First, Mr....
His Heart Isn’t Big Enough
Andy McCarthy is angry: What does it say when the president of the United States is unable to acknowledge that the United States won the Cold War and broke the bonds of Soviet tyranny...
The Tipping Point
When Andrew Sullivan isn’t doing his best to erase any memory of his vital contribution to the medium, he’s actually a very good blogger. His intensely personal take on the ‘tipping point’ of the...
Department of Silly Inquiries
John Horgan has a question – does religion do more harm than good? Leaving aside the impossibility of quantifying the benefits and downsides of faith in any systematic fashion – what metric, one wonders,...
