It’s tempting to just pile on Dave Weigel after he was outed as hating many of the libertarian/conservatives he was writing about for Washington Post, ostensibly as a movement insider. One could condemn him as a traitor, or at least a disappointment on a par with conservative-turned-moderate David Brooks. One might even go [...]
Ali Kokmen and I have been keeping track of what seem to be increasingly common (or just as likely, more frequently reported) bee swarm attacks. A related incident has struck his old home state of Minnesota, where a crashed truck unleashed millions of bees. I hope all these incidents are not part of a sinister [...]
I. Long story short, a few years ago I found myself leading a group of anarcho-capitalists in a face-off (on Broadway in front of DC Comics) against a group of left-anarchists led by a guy who eats garbage — a so-called “freegan” opposed to all waste of food — named Adam Weissman.
II. Little did I [...]
•I’ve written about modernist architecture being bland (geometric, plain), but sometimes it works well. It’s worth noting that the recently-refurbished northernmost building of the Lincoln Center complex works very nicely, managing to be jutting and angular without looking unnatural or inelegant. Not everything is awful. And one of these days, they really [...]
If you need something liberating to do in between watching the second episode of Freedom Watch on Fox Business Network at 10am Eastern today and then watching it again at 8pm (or Sunday 7pm and 11pm), I notice that the King Neptune and Queen of the Mermaids at this year’s Coney Island Mermaid Parade (today [...]
•What do disgraced reporter Helen Thomas, Ralph Nader, and Edward Said all have in common, besides being nuance-free Israel-bashers? All are of Lebanese descent, perhaps no coincidence (regardless of whether that makes you sympathize more or less with them).
•How much do some people at ABC News hate each other? As seen a month or two [...]
As I type this, there are two hours to go before the premiere (on Fox Business Network — demand it so that it will be supplied) of the new weekly show for which I’m a writer/producer, Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano. You can catch the episode — a “Tea Party summit” featuring Sarah [...]
I partied with Yale Party of the Right people, among others, this weekend in DC, and they were pleased that 2000 PoR alum Eve Tushnet (who I’ve mentioned on this blog before) was profiled in the New York Times yesterday. I’ve noted that PoR contains odd tensions between conservatism and decadence, traditionalism and eccentricity (one [...]
I never saw an episode of Lost (I was exhausted just watching the eight-minute recap at the beginning of season six), but I know enough about how the nerd mind works to trust that Jacob Levy is correct in his angry comments about the finale, which makes them an amusing read (being ignorant can be [...]
Unless this is just a postmodernist art hoax, it appears this is a Nazi propaganda poster used in Belgium to depict the myriad evils of America — and as an American, I have to say I love that crazy-looking America-metaphor machine, which vaguely reminds me of the bar Chief Ike’s Mambo Room in DC (I [...]
The time has come: Atlas Shrugged starts filming in Los Angeles next week, as a four-movie series, with or without stars.
And remember: the first cable episode of Fox News Channel/Fox Business Network’s FreedomWatch with Judge Andrew Napolitano airs the next day, with me among the producers.
(And Rand Paul is up for election to the Senate [...]
People objecting to Rand Paul’s adherence to property rights (vs. adherence to anti-discrimination law) is reasonable — even if I don’t share their position — but I’m already getting tired of the assertions, from both right and left, that Paul somehow contradicted himself. Call his position wrong if you like, but don’t pretend it lacks [...]
•Republican Tim Burns lost in Pennsylvania, and many were calling that special election (to replace the deceased John Murtha) a bellwether for November — which would seem to bode unexpectedly ill for the Republicans — but since Pennsylvania’s backwards 12th congressional district is the only congressional district in the nation that voted for Democratic presidential [...]
Sorry I didn’t get around to writing about that book on the Victorians (or anything else) in the latter half of last week. I’m still adjusting to my new work schedule at Fox and other tumult — but here, as compensation, is an entry praising a man from England who thinks a bit like [...]
As TalkingPointsMemo noted last week, poor Bob Bennett, who failed yesterday to get the GOP’s nomination for a reelection run for senator from Utah, is often fiscally conservative. But often isn’t good enough anymore, especially under current fiscal circumstances — which were brought about by people thinking an occasional nod to fiscal sobriety is [...]