A while back, I mused that the prospective invasion of Iraq had the potential to shake up the standard political alliances with which we’re familiar. I’m delighted to now be able to join in the shaking a bit. A group of writers and bloggers from both sides of the political specturm (and, for that matter, […]

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Glen takes issue with my response to Sonia in a post so well reasoned that my brief and weak response shouldn’t deter you from reading it. My response is going to be brief and weak because, at root, the disagreement on IP between Glen and I is a function of the fact that he’s a […]

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Well, I realize I’m not really “responding” to Eve any more, in the debater-y sense of a rebuttal or riposte. Maybe this is just sort of a riff-on-Eve which may or may not contain points of disagreement. Partly because I found myself nodding along to a good bit of that last post, and partly, I […]

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Assume that, as many have suggested, Osama bin Laden & co. would like nothing better than a U.S. led attack on an Islamic nation (prefereably the insufficiently theocratic Iraq), believing that this would spark a Sam-Huntington-style “clash of civilizations.” Some have also speculated that Democrats will be less enthusiastic in their support of Bush’s WoT […]

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Radley “climbs down from the fence” on Iraq. Even the capo di tutti warbloggers calls it “thoughtful,” so you know it’s gotta be good.

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I seem to be making disagreeing with fellow libertarian Sonia Arrison something of a full-time job. In a recent TechCentralStation piece, she takes to task libertarians in the “IP abolitionist” camp for showing undue deference to property. Well, I don’t know that I’m quite in the “abolitionist” camp (yet), but I’m probably a good deal […]

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… oh god. I almost just choked on my own tongue. People have been working overtime parodying MS’s most inane ad campaign yet, and the results are really goddamn funny.

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The authors of this piece in Counterpunch are dismayed that public ire has focused on African rulers who rejected food aid in the form of genetically modified crops, rather than getting all frenzied about an impending Attack of the Killer Tomatoes — which, apparently, is what will happen if GM crops manage to crossbreed with […]

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Ok, maybe not really. But laughing beats the hell out of diving behind a bush every time a white van rolls by. And Colby Cosh makes it all possible.

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Something like a week ago, I promised a reply to Eve Tushnet on the latest round of cloning and moral-status-of-the-fetus arguments. I’ve been remiss, but am actually even more interested in a sort of methodological meditation she posted right afterwards, inspired (it seems) by that debate. She starts by setting up as a sort of […]

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