How To Keep the Proles Stupid, And Feel Good Doing It
Problem: You're a school administrator who's being judged on your graduation rate; at the same time, you're having your resources depleted, and you're losing the capability to improve that graduation...
View ArticleSometime In 2004, Blogs Became Commercial
It's just that relatively few people have realized it, yet. As I so often say: When there's big money involved, the alternate modalities will be co-opted. (Or crushed.) Even more than information wants...
View ArticleThe Imaginary Terri Schiavo
Imaginary people make much better martyrs.Case in point: Terri Schiavo. The appeals are finally exhausted; Terri Schiavo is dead, unequivocally, unappealably. And we've just begun to see the...
View ArticleMost of the people, most of the time is good enough
Or bad enough, depending on your point of view. And it's most fun if you can fool yourself while you're at it. The tutor points out this morning that most Americans are pretty profoundly confused about...
View ArticleWhat Is Neo-Calvinism?
In a nutshell: Neo-Calvinism is Smith's and Weber's Iron Cage. Except that instead of holding the Neo-Calvinists, it restrains the lesser beings that would trouble them -- namely, the poor.More...
View ArticleWho Needs A Majority When You've Got Righteousness?
Forget about resisting the tyranny of the majority. We're past that. Right-wing Republicans are looking to lock in the tyranny of a minority.People in both parties, but most notably currently prominent...
View ArticleMost Of The People, Some Of The Time, Redux, Etc.
"Judicial activism" is a funny term. It seems that now, when Judges behave conservatively (as in, conserving clearly delineated constitutional rights), that's "activism" -- especially if it requires...
View Article"Voluntary Personal Savings Account"
How do conservatives manage to support the Bushite Nanny State and still sleep at night? They should at least be a little restive over the fact that their children have such weak and gullible parents....
View ArticleThought for the moment: Katrina as God's Punishment on the Poor
Question: How do you tell if someone is going to get help after hurricane Katrina? Answer: Find out if they were actually in the hurricane. If so, probably not. I've been thinking about something....
View ArticleAt 4,800 female residents, that's how many rapes per year?
From the Boston Globe story about the idea that the town of Wasilla made rape victims pay to report a rape, this paragraph caught my attention:After the Alaska Legislature banned the fees, Palin's...
View ArticleOn moral culpability for the killing of civilians
John McCain, February 15, 2000:"In the most obscene chapter in recent American history is the conduct of the Kosovo conflict when the president of the United States refused to prepare for ground...
View ArticleSchizoid Conservative Moralism
I've always found it both ironic and unsurprising that American Conservatives are simultaneously raunchier and more puritanical than liberals. Cases in point? Sarah Palin sells herself on sex and...
View ArticleIs Obama more of a Maoist, or more of a Stalinist? You decide!
@ National Review Online, they're busily debating whether Obama is more of a Maoist or a Stalinist. (Andrew Sullivan: "Yes, they're that crazy.")Second, and relatedly, Obama's radicalism, beginning...
View ArticleJoe Wurzelbacher is kind of not such an honest guy, it turns out...
Ohio's voter registration deadline has passed Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher by, and he's not actually registered to vote. So you have to wonder how sincere his question was. Fortunately, he's given us...
View Article... In fact, Joe Wurzelbacher is a flat-out shill.
He's a registered Republican, who appears to have voted in the Ohio primary (in which most Republicans apparently stayed home or voted Democratic because McCain was unopposed), and (and this is the...
View ArticleThe Nordlinger Effect
Those wacky NRO guys -- Jay Nordlinger has spent a weekend in Vermont, and now he Understands The Noble Working Man:.... here’s how I understand it: Modestly off people — “real Vermonters,” as some...
View ArticleBruce Fein: Snobby Conservative Elitists Like Me Are The Only True Judges Of...
Bruce Fein is getting his ducks in order to say "I-told-you-so":None of the presidential or vice presidential candidates would have been worthy of the constitutional convention of 1787 or the...
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