Whenever I travel I am reminded of how clearly and inexorably we are losing our practical freedoms, under Democans and Republicrats both. Even though airplane travel is routine for millions of Americans (at any given moment, 60,000 citizens are in the air somewhere over our country), we, docile sheep all, put up with indignities that …
Wee Timorous Beastie
Nietzsche was a master wordsmith, and so he effectively projected a bad boy image of himself up on our culture’s screen, an image calculated to make all his maiden Lutheran aunts shudder, and perhaps weep a little. But inside, that man was Burns’ mouse beneath the harrow — a wee timorous beastie. Now this is …
Spooky Numbers
A friend sent me this link and I almost posted it, and then a few days later I saw it on Mark Horne’s blog and decided to put it up here. The numbers are creepy any way you think about it, but I do wish there were another set of numbers alongside these. I believe …
On Not Watching the Punch and Judy Show
As Obama is settling in to doing his thing, a couple of observations. The first is that Obama is a very different kind of slick than Bill Clinton was. Clinton’s was more a function of greasiness than anything else. Obama is disciplined, sharp, shrewd, and fully capable of coopting thin veneer conservatives. And all the …
Herod is God Tee-Shirts
This really is an historic day, a day on which a black man will become president of the United States. That doesn’t make it a good day, but it does make it memorable and worthy of comment. Those who have followed my political writing for any time at all know that I have been very …
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HT: Right Mind
The Wahoo! Stimulus Package
Well, we are two days away from the Dawn of the Shining One, and so my thoughts have turned naturally to the coming wahoo! stimulus package, that fiscal hot air balloon with a diameter of about two miles and counting. We are talking about about a lot of money . . . actually make that …
A Judicious Temperament
I was in wait-and-see mode on Rick Warren praying at the inauguration. My initial reaction was uh oh, but being as judicious and thoughtful as I am, I thought I would wait and see what he actually said in his prayer. The upshot is that I was fully prepared to praise him for participating in …
Blogging About Blago
One of the things that makes me happy about the Blagojevich uproar is the eloquent testimony it provides for the thesis that people don’t ever stop doing what people do. And because many of them have not ever read a book, they don’t know that this is what they are doing. The world of Chicago …
You Dogmatic Pig
See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die No, I have not gone all nerdy on you, and yes, I am about to analyze the argument presented in the above musical spoof of California’s Prop 8. Here is the argument presented by Prop 8: The Musical. Christians who profess to follow the Bible must, …