Via Radley comes the following bit of “reassurance” from the office of Sen. Joseph Biden, who proves that Republicans haven’t monopolized the art of pissing on the Constitution after all: A friend of mine who works for an advocacy group here in D.C. said he spoke with a staffer in Biden’s office about the RAVE […]

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So there’s no corroboration whatever for this, and it’s probably total bollocks, but this claim by a commenter over on Road to Surfdom was at the very least intriguing. Anyone know if there’s any basis to this? The day of Pte Lynch’s rescue,a BBC journalist on BBC World TV, reported that the raid on the […]

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I hadn’t read James Lileks for some time before tonight, as I had stopped reading a lot of the warblogs. I had read in the earlier stages of the march to war—first while I was making up my mind about the question, and then later because I was involved in the debate over the war. […]

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Wow. This is the most incendiary forum I’ve ever seen Cato hold. Watch the whole thing.

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Matthew Yglesias, from whom I seem to be getting all my ideas for blog posts recently, has a couple of posts on the relevance (or lack thereof) the question over whether homosexuality is “innate” or a “choice.” My take, not knowing a whole lot about the science of the issue, is that so many people […]

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On the suggestion of a commenter to a post below, I was skimming over the first chapter of David Stove’s Against the Idols of the Age when my eye lighted on a passage concerning what Karl Mannheim called “unmasking” explanations. These are most familiar if you’ve debated with one of the few genuine Marxists not […]

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Reason‘s Ron Bailey is always great to read on biotech issues, but I sometimes feel as though his forays into bioethics go wide of the mark. This piece on the pro-aging views of Leon Kass (a philosopher libertarians would have to invent, as a foil, if he didn’t exist) is a case in point. Kass’s […]

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Brad DeLong has a post on Robert Nozick’s now slightly infamous use of rent control laws to extract a settlement of over $30k (in mid 80s dollars!) from his then landlord, Love Story author Erich Segal. First, a general note on the ample discussion that followed. There’s plenty of tiresome rehearsal of some line about […]

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Much quoted since the sad death of Daniel Patrick Moynihan has been his aphorism: The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself. However, as Matthew Yglesias observed a while […]

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Y’know, it probably never would’ve occured to me to pick up a Dixie Chicks album otherwise, but given how quickly their stock has fallen with the mouth-breathing waste-of-flesh demographic over the last few weeks, I think I may just go pick up their latest.

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