Differently phrased Glenn Reynolds: The failures of Homeland Security (although not the President who oversees the office!) after Katrina make a paranoid crank’s lunatic ravings about scary dark-skinned musicians all the more relevant.
Month: September 2005
Nice post by Matt Yglesias: Late 1990s America was aesthetically unsatisfying to a lot of intellectual types, including intellectual types who write about politics. They yearned for a more heroic age,
Visited the Woodford Reserve distillery yesterday, and bought a liter of their delightful product. Bourbon is glorious, and great bourbon inspires contemplation of divinity. Lexington does have its ch
I think that a couple of comments in this thread deserve greater attention. In presenting a damning set of evidence regarding comparative social mobility in Europe and the United States, DJW makes this unfortunate demand: If you’re going to make claims this stark and certain, it might behoove to check and see if they’re actually […]
An actual recruiting ad. Watch. Via Mike at Fish for Breakfast.
Bob Somerby saw someone say this on This Weak: “I was one of the people who was very angry watching from the safety of my living room and with the New Orleans portion of my family—I have a sister
Werther does the necessary work of demolishing Victor Davis Hanson. Charles Murray isn’t the only transparent hack on the right. Via Wolcott. Mr. Hanson, Cal State Fresno’s contribution to human letters, is the favorite historian of the administration, the Naval War College, and other groves of disinterested research. His academic niche is to drag the […]
Regular readers of Lawyers, Guns & Money (if any) will know that I am often puzzled by those who claim that reactionary culutral countermobilization is primarily driven by the fact that the court
Susie at Suburban Guerilla notes this Alan Dershowitz post about William Rehnquist, which (among other things, some of which are better substantiated than others) discusses the infamous memo Rehnquist
I have been invited to help fill in for Lindsay at Majikthise while she is off doing actual journalism type-stuff; make sure to check out her reports from the field. I will remain around here too.
New Orleans seems to be drawing the racist right out of its hole. In good times, the right can manage a cosmetic effort to obscure the racial element of its program. They can ignore the fact that Amer
Hitchens: I’ve obviously missed my vocation as a cartoonist: By Sunday I had lost count of the number of them who all seemed to know that, if Saddam Hussein was still the absolute ruler of Iraq,