“There comes the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There comes the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself. Lo! I show you the last man.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Nota bene, those who ridicule the use of strange sci-fi hypotheticals in […]

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Just in case you thought the Clinton administration was unique in its proclivity for making embarassing documents vanish, Tim Dunlop notes in a post on Stand Down that Bush et. al. stripped 8,000 (yes. eight thousand.) pages from the Iraqi declaration before turning it over to the U.N. And on those missing pages? Why, the […]

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I’ll remind y’all again in precisely one week, but Thursday, February 6 will see all the prose-rockstars of the D.C. blog world gathering at Rendezvous Lounge, around 7pm. It’s at 18th and Kalorama NW; get in there like swimwear!

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Jim Henley and Jerry Brito weigh in with reactions to the freshly leaked “Shock and Awe” plan. I hope Henley’s right that this is just a bit of psyops, because otherwise the hawktalk about their compassionate desire to liberate the poor, oppressed people of Iraq suddenly takes on the aspect of a horrifically cruel joke […]

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Declan posts this satire that’s been making the rounds: FROM: GEORGE WALKER BUSH DEAR SIR / MADAM, I AM GEORGE WALKER BUSH, SON OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH, AND CURRENTLY SERVING AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOU BECAUSE WE […]

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Do you remember, back during the debates over the initial Bush tax cuts, how the Democrats cleverly appropriated conservative lingo to characterize the proposal as a “reckless tax expenditure?” Well, it looks as though President Bush thinks spinabout is fair play. The most recent round of cuts — including the effective evisceration of the distortionary […]

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From the world of print to the blogosphere.

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We’ve got one last bit of evidence in the Lott affair, so here’s one last wrap-up. After looking back over the evidence compiled so far, I noted that there was some ambiguity on a key bit of information from one of Lott’s former colleagues, an economics professor named David Mustard who, as a graduate student, […]

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We lost Robert Nozick a year ago yesterday. I didn’t know him, really, but I was hit when I heard almost as though I had. A co-worker over at Laissez Faire Books, where I worked then, emailed me from the West Coast office assuming I’d heard, which I hadn’t. My first thought, after sitting stunned […]

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I’m done with the Lott story barring any really astonishing developments; you can bookmark Tim Lambert’s page if you want to keep following the blogosphere’s newest reality show. He’s got a roundup of fallout from the Rosh thing, much of it interesting. Oh, and pick up a copy of U.S. News & World Report next […]

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