An LGM correspondent sends this:...which reminds me that I need to finish that review of Andrew Gordon's Rules of the Game.
Noting that the War on Christmas has failed once again, I am forced to "enjoy" the "holiday" from sunny San Juan. Some observations from Puerto Rico:Freeway driving is surprisingly pleasant.
It wouldn't be an LGM Christmas without a little politically-driven holiday cheer, courtesy of the Center for Constitutional Rights.Merry Christmas everyone. Yes, even you tgc. (via)
Liberal Fascist It is pretty amazing that Jonah Goldberg would note that the rabidly homophobic Nazi Party also contained a substantial number of homosexuals and use this to draw an analogy with...modern liberalism. In fact, of course, by Goldberg's Hitler-was-a-vegetarian logic because he's a modern Republican...
Lest we think that pregnancy discrimination is a thing of the past, New Yorker Ron Blauchut is here to remind us. Upon learning that his Congresswoman, Kirsten Gillibrand, is pregnant,.
Obama pulls slightly ahead in New Hampshire. Hey, I'd be happy to be wrong...
I am not for sale, and neither is your daughter. love, bean.
Blogging will be mercifully light from my end until the New Year, when I will return from two weeks of non-stop loafing and snacking in the Midwest.For those who haven't.
[Sorry to disappear for two days, kids. Was out of town surprising a friend who is getting married and who was in the states from Europe, where she lives. Am.
Shorter Ross Douthat: The fact that a woman living in subsidized housing in New Orleans has a big T.V. means that there couldn't have been any racism in Ronald Reagan's invocation of apocryphal "welfare queens" with "Cadillacs," and "strapping young bucks"* buying "T-Bone steaks" with food...
Mark Hemingway via Yglesias. Guess who he's writing about: His relentless use of folksy aphorisms and corny rhetorical sleight of hand provokes visceral objections — but the criticism isn't merely.
Although her brother Henry has recetly been caught rogering my daughter's stuffed animals, Emma is by far the more unhinged of the two. She has always devoted some part of.