What’s most amazing about the elements of the right who are fighting rhetorical battles on behalf of the president isn’t so much the mendacity, although that can be pretty awe-inspiring. It’s the unbelievably low assessment of the intelligence of their audience. The Weekly standard is the source of both my examples. First, via Matt Yglesias, we […]
My alienation from a show I used to watch religiously is even greater than Rob’s; I haven’t watched a second of either show in the new season. James Wolcott amplifies the points with some
Courtesy of a friend of Seb (of Sadly, No fame), I now have a beta gmail account. So all readers of L, G &M who were not sending me feedback at my old address can now not send it to the gmail add
A veritable Instapundit classic today: You know, the more I look at the new, Dean-channeling Kerry, the more I think that he doesn’t expect to win. He’s given up trying to convince swing voters that he’s serious on the war. I think this is about firing up the base to protect down-ticket candidates as much as […]
Has anyone ever seen the Spanish movie The Spirit of the Beehive? I don’t know much about it, but because the uprcoming screening at Hunter will be hosted by Pedro Almodovar, I guess I’ll
Via Paperwight, Tristero has a nice post on the John Birch Society. Maybe we don’t hear so much about them, he suggests, because their platform has become that of the modern Republican Party.
There have been a number of interesting observations regarding libertarian hawks in the last few days. Matt Yglesias points out that many who consider themselves libertarians actually aren’t, and thus can’t be relied upon to define a libertarian foreign policy. Jacob Levy makes a good argument for libertarian hawkishness on Iraq over at Crooked Timber. Finally, lest […]
My religious commitment to Law and Order has waned in recent years due to a number of factors. I hate Elizabeth Rohm, and wish she would die. I don’t care for Fred Thompson’s character, an
Professor Cole is on a roll: But I have a hard time rushing to Yusuf Islam’s defense because I never forgave him for advocating the execution of Salman Rushdie in 1989. He endorsed Khomeini̵
Via the (thankfully returned) busybusybusy, this gem from the guy who took the Washington Post editorial page well beyond the shark: Ten years ago democracy was on the march, and its progress seemed more or less inevitable. Political freedom was assumed to expand with economic prosperity, and international relations were expected to grow smoother as the number of […]
I don’t know why I forget to read them for months at a time. This one renders all past and future David Brooks mockery obsolete. via Pandagon.
I’m satisfied with the blogospheric account of the huge Bush lead in Gallup (signifigant oversampling of GOP, based on some crack-smokingly incomprehensible sample adjustment methodology). Now c