Penetrating Insight
The core issue of L’affaire Sherrod is that no one, anywhere along the way, from Andrew Breitbart to the NAACP to Tom Vilsack, used any kind of critical thinking skills.
Link Love
Man Up And Buy It
This blog has an odd name and there’s a lot of social conservative stuff there that sits poorly with me. But a friend writes there and he just freaking nailed it today. It’s sad to see that incumbents, even in… Continue Reading
Angriest Blog Post Title Ev-er
The prize goes to Patrick at Popehat for his post “The Perfect Is The Enemy Of The Good, But The Good Is The Enemy Of Bureaucrats, Those Who Hate Personal Freedom (For Other People), The Nanny State, And Grant Money… Continue Reading
The Illusion Of Progressivism
At the suggestion of Ordinary Gentleman Rufus F., I undertook to read Chris Hedges’ new book The Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. I found it a seductively-written polemic, lacking in scholarly research but… Continue Reading
Brings A Tear To My Eye
Really, it does. This is what it’s all about.
Bad History
A simple link. Prof. Taylor hits it right on the head. If the fear is that “during troubled times, fearful and naive people will turn to dangerous radicals,” I suspect that a picture of any sufficiently polarizing Republican could pretty… Continue Reading
The Loser Must Acquiesce
The rule of law requires that when a decision is made by the appropriate authorities, everyone go along with it. I was, and remain, a strong proponent of same-sex marriage. I thought, and still think, that Proposition 8 was a… Continue Reading
Elena Kagan Does Not Take The First Amendment Seriously
So says Legal Satyricon (a law banning books is okay as long as it is not actually used) and the Secular Coalition for America (citing five examples of a disregard of the principle of separation of church and state). Indeed,… Continue Reading
Hey It Needs To Be Done
Well, it didn’t take long for what is actually a reasonable starting point for a dialogue about how to handle Social Security’s impending financial depletion to be irresponsibly demagogued by veracity-deficient liberals. For the record, Congressman Boehner said he would… Continue Reading
Solar Not Quite As Green As Touted
For the most part, I think that solar power generation is part of the wave of the future. It isn’t always reliable (clouds and night) and so far it isn’t super-efficient, but it’s getting there. But one advantage of solar… Continue Reading