The time has come for honesty. We cannot continue as we are, pretending to party unity. The schisms are too obvious. We talk of “establishments” and “purists” as though we all want different things. Let me suggest that this is in fact, because we want different things. Let us first talk of the Union. The… Read More The Union and the Confederacy: the Ongoing Civil War in the GOP
Back in 2008, Jeff Goldstein had a long, ugly argument with Patrick Frey (which started here) about whether Obama was a “good man”. At the time, I found the argument much ado about nothing: what difference can it possibly make if he has a good heart or not? I’m opposed to what he does in… Read More Does it Matter if He’s Eeeeeevil?
Not being a reporter, I have neither the skills nor the resources to discern fact from fiction in the Steubenville Rape Case. I trust that Stacy McCain has the right of the matter, and that the KoolKids from 4Chan (or whatever) are just desperately seeking lulz. So I’d like to talk not about the particulars,… Read More Stupid Teenagers are Stupid
Which is why it took Stacey McCain’s epic blog post on Anne Hathaway’s wardrobe malfunction to remind me that I should follow His Holiness on Twitter. Something to confess this Saturday before Armageddon arrives the following Friday. Mea maxima culpa. When this story first trickled through the media, it was reported that the Pope would not follow… Read More I’m Not a Particularly Good Catholic
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At Other McCain, we confront feminism constructing the reality that rapists are rapists for want of enough mass meetings instructing them not to rape. Oh, of course. Because if you sat down a group of 18-year-old males and said, “Hey, guys, having sex with a woman against her will, yeah, that’s, you know…bad” over and… Read More The Magic of Teaching
The difference between blogging as a compulsive hobby and blogging for a living lies chiefly in how often you’re allowed to take off. Stacy McCain has a thousand things he’d rather be discussing than whatever insignificant quips and dull gotchas emerge from the latest round of Electoral Competitive Grandstanding, but there he is anyway, twittering… Read More Stacy McCain Blogs the Presidential Debate, so I Don’t Have To
Let us all stomp, like Stacy McCain, like Andy at Ace, upon the socialist fallacy of the day: @mattyglesias The concept of “redistribution” falsely implies that the existence of property is prior to the existence of the state.#mythofownership I assume this to be a commonplace on the Left: that property cannot exist absent the state,… Read More Matt Yglesias Never Watched The Wire
I have, thanks to Stacey McCain’s Championing, finally broke down and bought a copy of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72. So far it’s better than the Las Vegas drug trip, because it’s actually about something of general interest (what, Vegas was square in ’71? Say it ain’t so!) and thus the purple-toned yammering is… Read More How the Liberal Media Works
I’m starting to thing this pundit business is easy. Two days ago I posited the following: So let’s look at the kind of guy Mitt Romney is. He’s a business guy. He’s managerial. He’s serious. He’s sober. He plans and works and works and plans. Which is to say, he does not fly by the seat… Read More Paul Ryan and the Vice Presidency
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