So it appears that the Mustache of Understanding has gotten in a bit of hot water over his latest op-ed . Having grown up in Hong Kong (pre and post-handover) and knowing plenty of people who fled Friedman’s “reasonably enlightened group of people” quite recently, I’m not . . . . Continue Reading »
Welcome back to where the stuff never stops. Let’s see what we have for you nice folks tonight. Now, I’ve heard of scalping tickets . . . These faceless angels creep me out: the identity-less-ness of them is as jarring and wrongheaded as, say, an angel image with your own face, which . . . . Continue Reading »
Browsing Rabbi Dana Evan Kaplan’s new book Contemporary American Judaism, I note a great deal of ritual acknowledgement of “Jewish diversity” and not a word about Jewish fertility. That is a deadly flaw, for the sort of Judaism the author espouses will disappear if only because it . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Breitbart launched his new site today, BigGovernment , with an undercover invesigation of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). Officials with the controversial community organizing group were videotaped telling two journalists—who were passing themselves off as . . . . Continue Reading »
What does health care have to do with foreign policy? Not much, one might think. But there was a paragraph in President Obama’s speech last night that drew a connection between the two in a way that was at best troubling and at worst demagogic. It appeared in the context of the . . . . Continue Reading »
In a few weeks, I’m heading to Ephemerisle — the Seasteading Institute’s first annual anarcho-capitalist convocation on the high seas. Call it a fact-finding expedition. A few words of explanation: While I’m probably the most libertarian of the PoMoConners, I’m not . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m not usually that big on the phobias. I’m all for respecting and loving gay people, but I doubt there’s really a disorder that’s properly labelled “homophobia.” And I was skeptical when our provost here at Berry College cautioned us to be sensitive to students . . . . Continue Reading »
The German Marshall Fund has just released Transatlantic Trends , their annual survey of European and American public opinion. The survey collects data on issues ranging from the popularity of the American President (Europeans really like President Obama and they really hated G. W. Bush) to . . . . Continue Reading »
I admit I didn’t see the president’s speech tonight. I was on a plane to Washington DC to appear tomorrow night in a Webcast put on by the Family Research Council on Obamacare.But I have read it. I’m tired and have to get up early tomorrow, and so I don’t want . . . . Continue Reading »
A British tribunal has ruled that employers must treat strongly held views on climate change practices the same as they would religious beliefs : Senior executive Tim Nicholson claimed he was unfairly dismissed by a property investment company because his views on the environment conflicted with . . . . Continue Reading »
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