There’s a Democratic Congressman in jail right now. He hasn’t resigned and is basically doing government work from his jail cell. Which is a cornucopia of metaphorical possibilities, but more important is what he’s in jail for: Domestic Violence. I’m just gonna sit here and wait for the calls for his resignation to resound throughout the… Read More Feminism for Thee, But Not For Democrats
I first read Ayn Rand in college, and enjoyed her insofar as she expressed things I had previously pondered but never fully articulated. Her philosophy attempted to wed Aristotle with dialectical materialism, and I’m not entirely sure how well she pulled it off. But she did hit upon some under-spoken truths in her major works,… Read More The Discreet Charms of the New Class
Fat Bastard in 2010: ObamaCare is Going to save us all, even the Republicans! (Fisked for you entertainment) Pudgy McHeartstop in 2014: Let’s face it, ObamaCare is Terrible. Granted, Mikey’s the Whale is just engaging in the standard leftward pivot that almost everyone who was paying attention predicted back in the day, the thrust of… Read More Micheal Moore Argues With Micheal Moore
This interviewer kept trying to get him to embrace the orthodox, bien-pensant progressive viewpoint on the music industry, and he kept refusing to. And it’s not like he didn’t have fair warning: Is your sense of the music industry these days fairly apocalyptic, or is it mellowing, or…? You seemed fairly skeptical/ cynical about it a… Read More Dave Thomas of Pere Ubu is Awesome
Talking Points Memo: (via Drudge) Massachusetts State Police on Friday confiscated 1,250 bags of heroin during a traffic stop — and many of the bags were labeled “Obama care.” Other bags were labeled “Kurt Cobain.” I’m just glad they’ve found new ways to brand the junk. I feared that The Wire-era styles like “WMD” were still… Read More ObamaCare Gets the Metaphor it Deserves
The true believer truly believes. Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis — how incentives influence behavior — to government. It shows how elected officials and bureaucrats pursue personal aggrandizement as much as people do in the… Read More George Will Explains it Very Slowly to Barack Obama
I am not among the woeful who spend their day reading Slate, so I must admit I have never truly savored Yglesias’ thumbless-monkey prose. But a despicable troll in the sub-cockle of my heart delights in literary takedowns, and has ever since he first read the beating Mark Twain administered on James Fenimore Cooper. So read CJ… Read More Let us Now Abuse Matt Yglesias
Normally, when a piece of legislation is flawed, the spirit of bipartisanship demands a responsible effort to fix it. In this way, both critics and proponents can work together democratically to best benefit their constitutents. But not this time. This time, the Democrats can eat it. This time, they passed a law that every Republican… Read More Jonah Goldberg on The Vital Importance of Saying “I Told You So.”
Richard Cohen is beneath contempt. In all the years I read the Washington Post, I never saw a column of his that was not cheap and tedious. Sure, I’ll fisk E.J. Dionne, because Dionne is a Dem apparatchik in journalist’s clothing, announcing the party line. His columns thus rise to the level of argument. Cohen’s… Read More Richard Cohen Calls the Tea Party Racist, But He Used the Wrong Words or Something…
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