Since this is a little long to be included in comments, a couple of quick points about the possibility of a pro-life feminism. The first thing to say is that the question is unanswerable; in some sense, it’s up to Hugo Schwyzer to define his political stance, and if he defines himself as a feminist then […]
Month: September 2004
Sam Rosenfeld at Tapped catches this in the Washington Post: The Pentagon’s last hope of flight-testing critical new elements of an antimissile system, before activating the system this autumn
Everybody say hi to frequent commenter Erik’s new blog, Alterdestiny. Make sure to ask him what the hell the title means, and why an old school lefty like him is using such a New-Agey name.
I’ve been meaning to pull together a post responding to various arguments made by Hugo Schwyzer on the possibility of a left, feminist pro-life political alignment (See here, here, here). Ampersand at Alas, A Blog has rendered any such project on my part redundant with this splendid post. (I can’t seem to get a permalink, so you’ll half to […]
What to think about Chechnya and Beslan? Having a blog gives me the opportunity to ruminate at length. . . The Chechen situation provokes some difficult questions about terrorism. Various Russian stat
In a recent article in which self-parody and self-congratulation fought each other to a draw, Prof. Reynolds made the following statement: The press has been in the tank for Kerry to a degree that is
This story from the Washington Post is making the rounds this morning, inspiring commentary from Sully, Atrios, Josh Marshall, Patridiot Watch, and Henry at Crooked Timber. The outgoing U.S. Marine Corps general in charge of western Iraq said Sunday he opposed a Marine assault on militants in the volatile city of Fallujah in April and the subsequent decision to withdraw […]
Great, non-baseball thread at USS Mariner. Make sure to read the comments as well, in particular for a discussion of how an eighty foot tall robot can transform himself into a handgun. Here is how th
So long to a few of the remaining vestiges of democracy in Russia: He said he would propose legislation abolishing the election of local governors by popular vote. Instead, they would be nominated by
Mark Kleiman is the first person I’ve seen to make this rather crucial point: Wouldn’t it be astonishing if a major news organization turned out to have been as foolishly credulous about documents “proving” what some people in it wanted to believe about George W. Bush’s National Guard record as the Bush Administration was about […]
Tim Lambert has more on the article inexplicably discussed by the Times: The trouble with their study is that the economy was stronger under Clinton than under either Bush, so of course the reporting
In the midst of another dissection of Michelle Malkin’s book, In Defense of the Indefensible, David Neiwert coins a useful term for the most common form of conservative argument: Malkin, in fa