I was browsing over to Will Wilkinson‘s site the other day and accidentally punched in a “.com” at the end of the URL instead of the usual “.net” that Will owns. And as far as I can tell, that Will Wilkinson is some sort of weird anti-matter version of our will. I’m thinking of trying […]

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Strong Bad gives Parker and Stone a run for their money.

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I just saw a re-airing of the first post election Daily Show and the levels of Blue Rage are off the charts. Often it was fairly amusing (Stephen Colbert: “You see, John, here in New York, we’re too close to the terrorism and the gay people. The red states are far enough away to take […]

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I’m going to take a break from sniping at your friend and mine Will Wilkinson to congratulate him on his new gig in the big glass cube of Mass Ave, Cato.

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“The New Minority Party” looks at the potential for a little small-government insurgency within the GOP.

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I’m also tremendously relieved that the election’s over—suboptimal outcome notwithstanding—for my own reasons. What I’ve realized rather acutely over the last few months, though maybe I didn’t actually articulate it to myself until after the returns were in, is that I hate horse race writing. Paying attention to the swing states and this week’s new […]

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This has apparently been around for quite a while, but BoingBoing just linked to an amusing Brian Weatherson post listing some philosophical break-up lines. My favorites: The Humean: Just because weâ??re always together doesnâ??t mean we BELONG together. The Quinean: Iâ??m sorry, but you donâ??t mean anything to me anymore. The Content Externalist: Ever since […]

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I’ve blogged here before that I always thought it puzzling that people take the biblical story of Sodom to be a condemnation of homosexuality when, after all, the people of that fair city were threatening to gang rape a couple of (male) angelic visitors sent by Jehovah to suss out their reputed wickedness. (Why an […]

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Cribbing from Andrew Sullivan, I think I’m going to launch a Zell Miller Award for Outstanding Illiberal Denigration of Civic Institutions. First nominee is PowerLine’s Deacon for his horror at E.J. Dionne’s suggestion that, as Deacon puts it: a non-elected institution, the MSM, must curb our democratically elected executive and legislature. Almost as if the […]

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Will offers up just the latest in a long string of pieces by cosmopolitan elites lecturing other cosmopolitan elites on the need to get out of the echo chamber they all share. Enough already. Can we please stop pretending that failure to properly appreciate the wisdom of parochial, tribalist hicks (and I mean that in […]

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