His campaign is still working with white supremacists. But, anyway, this stuff (whether past or present) just represents "character defects," like adultery or something. He's great on civil liberties for someone who doesn't believe the Bill of Rights applies to the states (and, of course, civil...
Niall Ferguson. Defending terrible ends using embarrassingly unserious arguments is Ferguson's specialty, so it's hard to isolate any particularly argument as being especially bad. One can start with his inability.
Oh no, won't someone pleeeeeeeeeeese think of the children? Nobody could ever go broke investing in American fainting couch retailers. The FCC is really going to get upset if someone.
Kindly old Ron Paul has some, ah, thoughts about abortion and something called "honest rape" in which reprehensible moral sentiments and utter incoherence struggle valiantly for the upper hand.
I've been wrong about a lot of things, but Eli Manning was at the top of the list. Today, he (and Manningham) made the plays, and Brady (and Welker, although.
I can't leave any suspense about the pick, since I already placed my low stakes wager on the Giants (money line and +3) the Monday after the championship games before.
Via Outside the Beltway, A story about the resurgence of some of the more baroque aspects of Tea Party activism and local politics in the New York Times today. My favorite line: In Maine, the Tea Party-backed Republican governor canceled a project to ease congestion along...
Interesting Times article on the battle between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and areas of Illinois over upgrading levees in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Essentially, the Army Corps.
Ah, the Patriots: So close to the Super Bowl, yet so far. Wide receiver Tiquan Underwood has been cut by the Patriots less than 24 hours before the big game.
Yesterday, 6 players were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I was particularly excited by the inclusion of the great Seattle Seahawk Cortez Kennedy, one of my favorite players in team history. Willie Roaf and Dermontti Dawson were both clear choices. I am less...
I had an interesting twitter exchange (@ErikLoomis) today with Andy Bowen (@andymbowen) about John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. I was listening to Ornette's "The Shape of Jazz to Come" this.
It sure looks like it. Pay particular attention to this comment; apparently the faculty member who fired the activist student without following proper procedures was an outspoken critic of unionization. .