tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57079372024-01-31T05:36:36.445-05:00The Critical ConditionThe Enlightenment died today. Or, maybe, yesterday. I can't be sure.David Farishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.comBlogger250125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1134584585776698392005-12-14T13:22:00.000-05:002005-12-14T13:23:05.786-05:00Another changeI am now blogging over at The Apollo Creed with Wendy Ginsberg and several bloggers to be named later.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1133407508809772692005-11-30T22:25:00.000-05:002005-12-12T17:39:39.086-05:00Look at this pathetic blowhardYou have to wonder if he knows how he will be portrayed in the history books. The military historian Martin Ven Creveld believes that Bush committed the worst strategic mistake since the Roman incursion into Germany in 9 B.C. by invading Iraq, and a majority of the American people believe they were misled into a disastrous war that has gained them nothing but severalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1133052990255850892005-11-26T19:56:00.000-05:002005-12-01T09:44:38.046-05:00What is wrong with these people?Ask yourself some questions about this picture: What sort of person gets up before 5 a.m. and lines up outside a Wal-mart in the blistering cold? What sort of company manipulates people in such a way? Isn't it in many ways sad that consumerism is perhaps the greatest aspiration of American culture?I don't care if they were offering $1,000 plasma televisions for a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1132773110591011432005-11-23T14:11:00.000-05:002005-11-23T14:22:53.270-05:00Wednesday Cat Blogging Alyan has heard from his friend in the Marines, and he thinks your plan to pull out of Iraq is treasonous. And he doesn't care how many medals you won in some stupid war that took place like, 30 years ago. Cats only live 20 years!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1130519438508725332005-10-28T11:47:00.000-04:002005-12-01T09:41:18.580-05:00Creeping Robber-BaronismThe new economy, also known as "the ownership society" is beginning to take shape. Someone at that noted humanitarian organization, Wal-Mart, leaked a memo outlining the steps the company will take to tackle its 300-pound health care linebacker: "rolling all employees from traditional insurance to health-savings accounts, reducing company 401(k) contributions by 25 percentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1130128869622923872005-10-24T00:41:00.000-04:002005-10-24T00:49:44.830-04:00Sunday cat-bloggingAlyan hates that you Democrats are always trying to criminalize politics. He's said it before and he'll say it again: Objectively Pro-Saddam. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1127271788851045982005-09-20T23:03:00.000-04:002005-09-21T08:08:33.026-04:00Tuesday Cat BloggingMiles believes we should use New Orleans as a ground-zero testing ground for crappy conservative ideas like vouchers and the flat tax. He also -- and he's very serious about this -- believes that "Brownie" did a heckuva job.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1126748443633431952005-09-14T21:17:00.000-04:002005-09-14T21:40:43.670-04:00Stiffen that upper lipIt always brings a smile to my face when Republicans argue that Democrats are the party of elitism. Apparently because the vanishingly small population of humanities Ph.D's favor the donkey, it means the Republicans are the party of the people. The trouble is that whenever you dig a little deeper, you see very quickly what the actual values of the Republican party are. They Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1126141903957011692005-09-07T21:11:00.000-04:002005-09-07T21:12:50.660-04:00Wednesday Cat Blogging Miles believes that state and local officials should own up to their responsibility for the slow response to Hurricane Katrina. And he's tired of you playing the BLAME GAME.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1126137491195954092005-09-07T19:58:00.000-04:002005-09-07T20:08:40.043-04:00Wednesday Cat Blogging Alyan resents your exploitation of Hurricane Katrina for partisan gain. Shame on you.(Yes, I'm ripping off The Editors.)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1125886706259519672005-09-04T21:23:00.000-04:002005-12-01T09:43:18.966-05:00Left BehindSomething has finally come along to distract everyone from the apalling fiasco in Iraq, which is the heartbreaking and humiliating catastrophe on the Gulf Coast, and particularly in New Orleans. The most horrifying part of Katrina and its aftermath is that it could have been and very nearly was much worse. For 24 hours prior to landfall, experts were speculating that New Orleans was Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1125554419111547472005-09-01T01:59:00.000-04:002005-09-01T02:00:19.116-04:00Dead Louisianians would have loved their Iraqi freedomUnbelievable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1124167452046221552005-08-16T00:27:00.000-04:002005-08-16T00:44:12.076-04:00Your fellow Americans are mugglesApparently George Bush's neighbors grudgingly admit that grieving mother Cindy Sheehan has the right to protest outside the President's "ranch." But they seem to have some funny ideas about terrorism:Many Bush supporters say the president has little to gain politically by meeting with Sheehan. "I have no problem with what these people are doing here. This is Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1123950574577527122005-08-13T11:26:00.000-04:002005-08-13T12:29:34.636-04:00The future of Iraq, the future of AmericaYesterday the price of a barrell of oil spiked up to $67, which is nearly seven times what it was trading for six years ago. Though the markets are nervous about Iran's nuclear program and the instability in Iraq, there is nothing obviously driving up the price -- no boycott, no massive disruption, just the slow realization that the oil is running out and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1121369471348152442005-07-14T15:26:00.000-04:002005-07-20T11:55:41.383-04:00And we're only six months into the second termThe hour has finally arrived for the balance on the Supreme Court to be tilted to the right. I know a number of people who are greatly concerned about the upcoming fight for the confirmation of John Roberts, and I don't doubt that it will a long and important political battle. But I can't help but feel that this skirmish was lost 8 months ago when Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1121369149105146212005-07-14T15:23:00.000-04:002005-07-14T15:25:49.113-04:00New formatWhile I presume that most people have stopped reading this thing due to the paucity of posts, I'm going to unveil a new post here that I hope to stick to. Future posts are going to take the form of a weekly essay on national and world affairs, which is a better fit for me, since I was long accustomed to writing at that pace in college, and anyway, I don't have that much to say about theAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1118758092107164942005-06-14T09:09:00.000-04:002005-06-14T10:08:12.153-04:00Things are not going wellIt looks like we've passed so many turning points in Iraq that we've ended up driving around in a circle. For those of you who've been watching the news reports and wondering how the recent insurgency stacks up against the average month in Iraq, the news isn't good. An average of 2.57 coalition soldiers are dying every day as we head into the long, blistering summer. The Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1117569975013851252005-05-31T15:15:00.000-04:002005-05-31T16:06:15.060-04:00oil's endIt looks like some mainstream news sources are beginning to pick up on the impending oil crisis. The AP's Matt Crenson posted a story a few days back. He writes,And then it really will be all downhill. The price of oil will increase drastically. Major oil-consuming countries will experience crippling inflation, unemployment and economic instability. Princeton University geologist KennethAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1115421527828144572005-05-06T19:01:00.000-04:002005-05-06T19:18:47.940-04:00Bankrupt media: Exhibit ALadies and gentlemen of the jury, you have heard many a blogger bloviate about the media, which they derisively call the "MSM" (that's Mainstream Media for those of you who don't read blogs two hours a day). Some of this is pure sophistry, Monday morning quarterbacking, and jealousy, but some of it sticks. The charge with the most stickiness is this one: journalists have Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1115322938424191472005-05-05T15:55:00.000-04:002005-05-05T16:06:29.416-04:00Knowing things helps you avoid stupid commentsLittle Green Footballs posts this picture of a Hamas campaign blimp under the headline "Suicide Blimp," and then leaves it esssentially without commentary. Readers are supposed to understand that this blimp is advertising suicide bombing for the deranged Palestinian masses or something, and we're all supposed to get a kick out of how superior we are Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1114749767107775092005-04-29T00:02:00.000-04:002005-04-29T00:47:58.873-04:00What to say?I haven't been around the blogosphere lately, partly because I'm extremely busy, but partly because I'm totally detached from the whole Pope business. Still, I can't help but feeling that the wheels are coming off this whole thing. Oil is still absurdly high, and some scientists believe we've hit peak oil, the point at which production will begin to decline as demand skyrockets. I Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1114010326769742262005-04-20T11:15:00.000-04:002005-04-20T11:18:46.770-04:00OH MY GOD, STOP EVERYTHING!The National Review -- The National Review! -- has published an article criticizing the salaries of corporate executives. And no, it's not a joke issue. I can just imagine the look on Donald Luskin's face when he loaded the web page this morning and saw his boss saying something negative about capitalism. I mean, it must have totally ruined his morning recitation of DowAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1113069057711962932005-04-09T13:50:00.000-04:002005-04-09T23:51:28.016-04:00Hang on there, Horowitz: Sliming via distorted photos and innuendoThis may have flown under the radar of normal people who don't think that John Kerry Hearts Osama Bin Laden, but David Horowitz and his creepy cronies at Frontpage have created something called DiscoverTheNetwork.org, which links people like the fanatical obscurantist terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi with the eloquent liberal public Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1112411686270645172005-04-01T22:09:00.000-05:002005-04-01T22:26:20.083-05:00The full textHere is a link to the full text of Brendan O'Leary's address after September 11th. In the first paragraph he refers to the events as "apalling atrocities." He most clearly does not come off as a "terror apologist," merely as someone trying to understand what happened that terrible day. Shame on Laksin for not even linking to these remarks or providing the full context. However, we Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707937.post-1112299213812233972005-03-31T14:56:00.000-05:002005-04-01T22:07:35.816-05:00My professors get slimedOne of David Horowitz's sleazy attack poodles has written an outrageous article smearing Professors Brendan O'Leary, Clark McCauley, and Ian Lustick of the University of Pennsylvania. Lustick has been slimed by this crew before, particularly by Dan Pipes and his band of grade-grubbing whiners at Campus Watch, but this is the first attack I've seen on O'Leary, and it's Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15600464458790036261noreply@blogger.com5