This Tyler Cowen nonsense is a classic example of a conservative rhetorical technique that is particularly annoying. I'm not sure what to call it -- the strawman tu quoque? It's not quite the same thing as poetic justice as fairness. But it's remarkable how proud conservative...
I am outraged. The Crazy Mountain Brewery in Edwards, Colorado, in the Vail Valley has a new brew. Its title: Lawyers, Guns & Money Barley Wine. The site describes the.
Just a couple of brief observations: 1. If Paul Babeu had been a member of a political party that advocated treating gay men as human, he might not have had.
Ta-Nehisi Coates points us to this President's Day question, and also gives us the right answer. I've discussed this before, but Grant is extremely underrated. Teaching the Presidency this semester, I spent some time with my students going over this handy sortable list of presidential rankings...
A little morning deliciousness for you, from 1950 and via the American Gas Association. America's finest food from America's finest era of cooking.
Now this is first-rate commenting.
Karen Santorum, wife of everyone's favorite man, edited a lovely-looking book entitled Everyday Graces: A Child of Good Manners. Forward by Joe Paterno. A child of good manners accepts the abuse he or she is receiving for the sake of Penn St. football.
I'm sick and tired of trying to meet our commentariat's demands for more posts about Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname. To shut you all up about these vital nations, I'm.
Far be it for me, a lowly adjunct so depressed by the market he let his MLA membership lapse, to criticize Michael Bérubé, the current President of the MLA, but his.
Excellent: The Obama administration has announced that it will not defend laws that prevent married same-sex couples from obtaining military benefits. In a letter to Congress today, Attorney General Eric Holder argued, “[t]he legislative record of these provisions contains no rationale for providing veterans’ benefits to...
Col. Mustard is very impressed with Pat Buchanan's claims that he has been "censored" and "blacklisted" by liberals who "stigmatize as racist, homophobic, or anti-Semitic any who contradict what George.
I would have to agree that, lacking the wisdom of Solomon, I cannot determine what's worse about this crap: the writing or the ideas. When you're doing a middlebrow Kim.