In his latest column, Ross Douthat repeats an old canard from the campaign trail: That last statistic...
“Pushing on a string is difficult. Pushing a zombie on a string is even harder. Pushing a...
On his Wimbledon final’s victory and his 15th (and record breaking) Grand Slam Championship. I can’t speak...
Leda and the Swan by William Butler Yeats A SUDDEN blow: the great wings beating still Above...
America! America! May God thy gold refine, Till all success be nobleness, and ev’ry gain divine!
This explanation of Gov. Palin’s resignation seems to me to make the most sense (h/t Sam Stein):...
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...
Happy (early) 4th of July!
First Reason smacks down Time here. And then here. Good stuff.
After posting a response to critics of his Walmart/healthcare post without linking to a single critical entry,...
Patrick Appel responds to John Schwenkler:
This is about a twenty minute drive from my apartment. We will be roasting marshmallows and drinking...
I have to admit, I haven’t been following the dust-up between the First Thingers/ Pomocons and the...
On the flight over to Calgary (for Br. Scott’s nuptials) I read Bob Wright’s new book The...
James Joyner points to this piece by Mark Tapcott, in which he says a lot of what...
the imagined genesis of an article *ring*ring*ring* “Hello, this is Troy Patterson.” “TP! David Plotz here!” “David!...
With Al Franken’s victory finally official, the Democrats will soon have a filibuster proof majority of 60...
I comment on my retraction of an earlier post, here.
To hell with established media institutions. They deserve their fate.
