Stan Kurtz is upset that the blogosphere’s response to his most recent column on sexual privacy has been largely mocking and scornful. Why oh why, he laments, can’t bloggers engage in serious debate without insults and jibes? What he doesn’t notice is that, of course, they do. All the time. But they do so when […]

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This weekend (thanks to a recommendation from David Glenn of the Chronicle of Higher Education), I checked out the exhibition “Illegal Art,” which will be in D.C. through early June and in San Francisco this July. The art is “illegal” because it appropriates copyrighted or trademarked imagery as source material. In actuality, I think all […]

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Econo-badass Glen Whitman (whose permalinks appear to be broken) has a good two-parter deconstructing Dick Gephardt’s healthcare proposal. He also wins this week’s prize for best post-title: “Gephardt of Darkness.”

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So my usual modus operandi is to post fitfully during the week, and then bust out with a few long essay-like pieces on Sunday night. You’ll notice that didn’t happen this weekend, because my street had no electricity Sunday night. So I’ll have to dribble out the mini-essays I would’ve written last night over the […]

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…. “No, infidel, I’m trying to incinerate you! Why are you laughing, dammit?” Fear the new face of terror, a ruthless organization called…. MILF.

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Amy explains why yesterday’s National Day of Prayer as it’s actually instituted constitutes a flagrant violation of the Establishment Clause.

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If you’ve ever used one of those mainstream travel guides to navigate D.C., you may have noticed that their picture of the District seems to have passed through a weird funhouse mirror: Northwest is inflated to gargantuan proportions and the other quadrants…. other quadrants? Yep, D.C. is not, in fact, just Northwest. Not that you’d […]

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Wow. Someone has just taken the whole Lott/Rosh thing to a whole other level… Geez, I almost feel sorry for the guy.

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Ah, May Day… it’s a toothpaste, it’s a shoe polish, it’s many holidays in one! Creepy authoritarian types can celebrate Loyalty Day… maybe by volunteering to be interrogated, background checked, and body-cavity-searched by John Ashcroft personally. I feel more secure just thinking about it. If you’re keen on law and order, or even just Law […]

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Chuck Freund thinks the war in Iraq has dealt a final death blow to Pan-Arabism. Orson Scott Card thinks that it may have sown the seeds of its reemergence.

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