Via MoJo Blog, a new Williams Institute study [PDF] calculates that cost to states of excluding gay parents from the foster care system nationwide would run to about $130 million. I wrote about the burgeoning war on gay parents back in 2005.

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By way of Boing Boing’s report on indie rockers jumping on the Net Neutrality bandwagon, I find this analogy from Craig “Craigslist” Newmark on the coming dark days of non-neutral nets: Let’s say you call Joe’s Pizza and the first thing you hear is a message saying you’ll be connected in a minute or two, […]

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You’d doubtless already heard that tofu will turn your little boys gay. But now it appears that beef may lower their sperm counts. What’s a parent to do?

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You can’t even parody this stuff anymore… Michelle Malkin has written a cute little pledge for people committed to wetting themselves whenever they come within 10 meters of an Arab, which (contrary to what you might have thought) is incredibly bold, manly behavior. Lock the door to mom’s basement, firmly grasp your testicles, and feel […]

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“Debate Exposes Doubt“? “Nobody Summons Megachurches“? Oh, snap! That last one especially is as clear a glove-slap as you can get: Suderman is gunning for Dave Weigel’s ironic/semiobscure-hipster-popcult-reference-headline crown. Better get crackin’ W; you’re like half a Magnetic Fields pun away from letting H&R get outhepped by the scions of Bill Buckley.

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Bloggers are up in arms over this weekend’s revelation that the NYPD conducted extensive surveillance of mostly-peaceful protest groups in the run-up to the 2004 Republican National Convention. (I was up there for Reason at the time and ended up covering a lot of the protests myself.) It would be disturbing is if the city’s […]

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It wouldn’t normally be noteworthy to learn that another tech expert thinks the Digital Millennium Copyright Act sucks… except perhaps when it’s the law’s principal architect.

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In addition to the excellent Lives of Others, I caught The Pillowman with a group of Americas Future Foundation kids last week. Andrew Sullivan saw it too… and reveals that the guy in the background who seemed vaguely familiar under all that makeup was, in fact, his boyfriend Aaron. I was a little worried at […]

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Todd Zywicki at Volokh links a recent Wall Street Journal article on “Conspicuous Virtue,” advanced the modern analogue of Veblen’s conspicuous consumption. The article itself is behind the subscription wall, but Zywicki excerpts enough of the core argument to make clear that it’s an instance of the “unmasking” genre, where the putatively high-minded motives of […]

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I finally got around to seeing The Lives of Others last week. For those of you who’ve missed the buzz, the film follows Stasi captain Gerd Wiesler and the couple he’s been assigned to surveil: writer Georg Dreyman and his actress girlfriend Christa-Maria Sieland. Each begins—whether from fear, conviction, or some mixture of the two—as […]

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