The Left Wing Raconteur

Why the Antitheists Go Too Far.

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:02:00 +0000

While on vacation from TLWR, I'd come across a clip of Christopher Hitchens, who is the author of the book, God Is Not Great (which no, I have not read), and among other things, is a vocal atheist...

The Raconteur is Back!

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:59:00 +0000

The Blog has fallen into disuse lately, as I've been having a bit of a rough go at it in the world beyond the computer screen. Things, however, have settled down, and I return with a vengeance. Don't...

Free Enterprise: For Whom the Bell Tolls

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:32:00 +0000

I read something this morning that made me want to throw up just a little bit in my mouth. The sad thing is that the point of the article I refer to was one that I would otherwise agree with. It's...

Random Quote

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:57:00 +0000

I've decided that Quote of the Day will now be changed to Random Quote, mostly because it occurs to me that posting Quotes on a daily basis is impossible if you wish for the quotes to have any...

Even Benny and Snooch make fun of Dubya and Co.

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:04:00 +0000

For shame.

The Raconteur Gets a Facelift.

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:50:00 +0000

So, I stayed up till noon today working on this thing, and let me tell you, HTML is something that, as Barbara Bush once said of Ms. Ferraro, rhymes with 'rich'. No really, it's evil. Spawn-of-Satan...

Blog Under Construction.

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:20:00 +0000

The Raconteur is currently in the process of receiving a facelift. You may have noticed the nifty new search bar on the side, plus a couple of other less noticeable additions. Working my nonexistent...

Hope and Nihilism in 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:39:00 +0000

It's hard to find a blogger on the political column of things that's managed to escape having to read about the Ferraro disaster. As it happens, I was reading through a few posts here and there on...

Quote of the Day

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:37:00 +0000

Starting off a new section in the Blog today, between writing the Middle East Essays, here's the ever common Quote of the Day. I'm not sure how other people do it, but I want to -eventually- be...

Why Do They Hate Us? A Candid Look at the Middle East (Part 1)

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:49:00 +0000

Being a fairly atypical sort of middle eastern man, both in appearance and in mindset, I often get asked the question by American acquaintances: "Why do they hate us?" It's a complex question. One...

Hillary's Foreign Policy Experience Fraud

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:01:00 +0000

Now most of the folks reading this (presently just me, my lady, and that odd fellow that stumbles quite by accident into this forbidden corner of the blogosphere and goes 'Wha?') have heard probably...

Re: The Raconteur Bible - What About the JWs?

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:41:00 +0000

In the recent 'editorial' on the foundation of the politic ethic on which I base my convictions, in the comments section specifically, Thomas got me thinking about examples in which people try not to...

Conquering Trackbacks: The Raconteur Victorious

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:16:00 +0000

After nearly having to tear my hair out in frustration, I've finally managed to stomp the trackback monster. It took a lot of doing, and several hours scouring google but we finally did it. Oh but...

Oh my god! The Blog's on fire!

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:41:00 +0000

While trying to add in Haloscan's trackback functionality to the Blog today, I somehow managed to mangle the blog into erasing all previous comments. Never fear though, I'ver taken pains to restore...

Lactivists and Where the Hell Was I?

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:23:00 +0000

It was recently brought to my attention by my brother (who was likely searching for illicit material on the internets - as boys of that age tend to do), that there are a lot of women up in arms over...

The Raconteur Bible

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:35:00 +0000

This is where we get serious. Take a moment to try and read up on the various schools of thought out there on what really is 'Liberalism', and you'll end up with more information than you could...

God no, it's the phone!

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:31:00 +0000

This just cracked me up. Does anyone else think that someone should put up a phone ad with clips from from here? Wait... I forget I'm the only one reading this. Then again, the sum total of this...

HRC and Replican Style Propaganda

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:15:00 +0000

In his recent entry at the Huffington Post, Jon Landau berates the Clinton campaign over the "3 am" ad. The ad aside, this struck me as interesting: Many in the pundit community who know better...

If They'd Only Told Me About the Thousands...

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:53:00 +0000

Of dollars bloggers out there are making, I might have broken into this before. And by now I'd be lounging with Andrew Sullivan on Real Time with Bill Maher. And here I thought I might be...

The Frightening World of Blogs.

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:43:00 +0000

Now that we're up and running (nominally, anyway), I'm introduced to obscure, occult-ish sounding things like RSS feeds and trackbacks. A question is raised: What the hell are these things? Time to...

Foundations Laid; Reach Skyward.

noreply@blogger.com (Ashalan Ze'vin) — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:44:00 +0000

"A political theory founded on the natural goodness of humans and the autonomy of the individual and favoring civil and political liberties, government by law with the consent of the governed, and...