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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Ask opera buffs who was the greatest soprano of the 20th century, and I’ll hazard that only the most determined contrarians will fail to name Maria Callas. NPR remembers la divina 27 years after her death. As one of the commentators in the story so aptly puts it, she had a way of making music […]

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OK, I’ll confess, this has crossed my mind once or twice in the last 48 hours.

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Ex-roomie Chuck Karczag is bloggin’ the election from South Carolina over at TNR’s election blog.

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A sight quibble with my esteemed colleague Brian on the logic of abstention from voting. (I should note that I’m staying home as well, though because D.C. is so absurdly safe for Kerry, more than out of any general objection to voting.) After running through the familiar argument that the chances of your vote actually […]

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I can’t believe I didn’t find this until today: Republican Phone Sex.

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