This is good
I know, I know. You look down on “American Idol,” think it’s trash, yada yada yada. Well, sometimes I watch it for fun, along with other fluff du jour, despite the fact that I’m not ordinarily all that keen on … Continue reading →
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Kirsten Powers…
…continues to be one of the few MSM figures with integrity: Since the murder trial of Pennsylvania abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell began March 18, there has been precious little coverage of the case that should be on every news show … Continue reading →
McConnellgate
Jonathan S. Tobin has a piece in Commentary entitled, “The Media Can’t Bury McConnellgate”: Is it ever okay to bug an opponent’s political headquarters? Even those who are too young to remember what happened when officials connected with Richard Nixon’s … Continue reading →
If women were in charge
Heather Wilhem rightly skewers an idea that has long seemed to me absurd on its face (and that many women, and even some men, seem to believe): that if women were in charge of the world, it would somehow be … Continue reading →
Where’s Tom Lehrer?
[Hat tip: “Gringo.”] Here’s an update on Tom Lehrer, that bitingly sarcastic troubadour of the 50s and 60s. But because he’s a reclusive sort, the article really doesn’t have all that much to say except that at 85 he’s alive … Continue reading →
The Congressional GOP…
…is not exactly a font of wisdom when it comes to strategy. Or is it tactics? I think tactics. Or maybe both. [NOTE: See this and this.]
Continue reading →Educational evolution
Commenter “Mike” quotes me in a previous post, and adds his reaction: “In high school we were assigned to read Crime and Punishment, as well as the “Grand Inquisitor” excerpt from Karamazov, and in college I read his chilling work … Continue reading →
Differences: Thatcher vs. Reagan, British vs. American conservatives
Interesting.
Continue reading →It’s not enough to banish smoking, now we won’t hire smokers
Here’s the story: In small but growing numbers, employers in recent years have been refusing to hire smokers, arguing that coaxing tobacco users to quit with free cessation programs or cash incentives hasn’t worked. Some medical experts back the bans, … Continue reading →
Lenin, Dostoevsky, and me
[NOTE: The other day I happened across an old post from March of 2009. As I read it, I realized that I was probably describing one of the earliest manifestations of my change experience, even though I wouldn’t have called … Continue reading →
I’m shocked, shocked!
Now let me get this story straight: Mother Jones has reported the contents of a clandestine tape made of a private meeting between Mitch McConnell and a few aides, who were planning to use Ashley Judd’s somewhat sketchy mental health … Continue reading →
Now that they’re not compulsory…
…membership in Wisconsin’s public sector unions has fallen significantly. Quelle surprise! More: There is an important lesson here: not only did Scott Walker’s reforms strike an important blow for employee freedom, they also had the happy side-effect of depriving the … Continue reading →