Our tax dollars are hard at work, buying just about all the civilization I think I can stomach.
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Tasty Tidbits 8/22/11
- Clark Carlton continues series on Naked Public Square.
- Electric cars.
- “Poor white trash” atheists.
- When anomalies loom large.
- Fried food.
- The guy really loved his outboard motor.
- Fr. Z’s Litany for the Conversion of Internet Thugs 2.0
Tasty Tidbits 8/13/11 – Curmudgeon Special
- Anathema (Corporatism I)
- Can you top this I?
- A golden anniversary
- Catholicism/Americanism mish-mash.
- Rick Perry’s Crony Capitalism Problem.
- Can you top this II?
- Food police (Corporatism II).
- Corporatism III
- A Feast of the Mother of God.
(I seem to detect an antiwar, anticorporate selection bias here. Imagine that!)
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Tasty Tidbits 7/23/11
- Obama as Gorbachev.
- Who lacks standing to diss Herman Cain?
- Obama should suspend habeus corpus.
- The Great Gerrymander.
- Norway.
- An exhibit in the libertarian case for abandoning regulatory bodies.
- What’s Wrong with Benevolence?
- Ouch! That argument makes too much sense!
- Today’s Gospel reading rocks!
- Am I one sick puppy?
Not with a bang or a whimper
You’re reading this, and it’s after May 21 in most time zones, so the world apparently didn’t end Saturday. Not with a bang or a whimper. Continue reading “Not with a bang or a whimper”
7-Point Program from the Brink of Insanity
I was going to post this (with a gloating wrapper) at 00:01 on 5/22/11, the day after the end of the world. But the discussion has heated up beyond my expectation, and I don’t want to wait. Continue reading “7-Point Program from the Brink of Insanity”
Empty Promises
I finally got my fill of President Obama last week and stopped biting my tongue about him. I’d given him the benefit of the doubt for 27 months, but there comes a point when doubt ends.
There were at least three reasons why I’m sick of the man.
You can’t make this stuff up
I recently stumbled upon a fundamentalist site, so absurd that it has lingered with me, explaining “why the Apocrypha isn’t in the Bible.” It’s absurd as any patent circular “reasoning” is absurd: the Apocrypha isn’t in the Bible, in substantial part, because it teaches false doctrine. And how does one discern false doctrine? By seeing if it’s in the Bible. Continue reading “You can’t make this stuff up”
Stopping START
Republicans in Congress and the conservative movement are capable of dissenting from bipartisan foreign policy consensus, but only when it would be the most foolish and harmful to do so. Bipartisan consensus on foreign policy is very often destructive and dedicated to shoring up U.S. hegemony through countless commitments that we can’t afford and shouldn’t be trying to maintain. This consensus has endorsed dangerous policies from invading Iraq to expanding NATO to isolating and antagonizing Iran, and on all of these Republicans in Congress and movement conservatives have largely been reliable supporters. We can expect that they will continue to rally behind such policies in the future, because they are exercises in American power projection, because they are confrontational, and because they are incredibly short-sighted and reckless. Continue reading “Stopping START”
Legislation by Litigation
If coverage of the California Proposition 8 litigation hasn’t left you a little crazed, you’re either (a) a space alien or (b) not paying attention. Or maybe (c) the “bloodless lobotomy” of law school truly has left me unlike other humans (i.e., I’m the space alien). Continue reading “Legislation by Litigation”
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 