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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[Courtesy of Bonnie Daley]

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Maureen Dowd has finally lost it.

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Shortly after writing that last piece, I spotted this discussion, linked by Glenn Reynolds, over on Max Sawicky’s site. It’s both interesting and gratifying that many on the moderate antiwar left feel about some of the vocal fringe more or less the way I do about Lew Rockwell or that blue LP senate candidate. That […]

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To most people who’ve thought at any length about politics, the familiar left-right schema used to characterize political positions seems deeply unsatisfying. Do we really think, after all, that the complex cluster of beliefs people have on a wide range of issues can be adequately captured by a one-dimesnional metric? Do we imagine that the […]

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There are photos from last week’s debate posted on the AFF website. Speaking of that debate, I’ve been meaning to write up a response to Eve Tushnet’s rejoinder. I think what’s mostly needed is for me to clarify my position, rather than to “respond” as such, actually, but I’ll be doing whatever you want to […]

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You’ve all seen those Apple “switch” ads, right? The ones showing people — some seeming a little stoned, frankly — effusive about the wonders of switching from Windows to Mac? Well, it seems Microsoft tried to fight fire with fire by producing one of its own. The inauthentic language of the ad was a tip […]

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October 15 is the birthday of your friend and mine, Fred Nietzsche, himself arguably midwife to the birth of modernity. Celebrate by swinging like Tarzan on that rope between man and overman, and if you get a chance, put some flowers on God’s grave for me.

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