Dropping back into the Culture Wars

[12/25/11. I can’t believe I wrote this a scant 3 months ago. That issue of Touchtone did a real Huey Long on me, I guess. I leave it here as standing proof that I’m sensitively dependent on initial conditions. Tipsy]

Having announced my withdrawal from the Culture Wars 18 months ago (I actually dropped out before I blogged it), I’m now on the brink of repenting and dropping back in.

What has shaken me up is a feature in Touchstone Magazine‘s 25th anniversary edition, The French Connection, which likens America today not to 1916 Tsarist Russia, but to pre-1789 France. Continue reading “Dropping back into the Culture Wars” →

Tasty Ton’o’Tidbits 8/11/11

  1. Hekman for Senate.
  2. Do you think they’d accommodate Christians like this?
  3. 3 choice lines.
  4. Truthiness, proofiness, and 75¢
  5. Love divided by X.
  6. Cutting edge legal theory: “altrustic filicide.”
  7. Looks like we’ve got us a chain letter!
  8. Newsweek’s Bachmann cover.
  9. 2012 Même Preview.
  10. Tipsy taunts a Ditzy prosecutor.

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Tasty Tidbits 7/22/11

Don’t miss Tidbit number 9.

  1. The legal logic of polygamy.
  2. In the name of Christ, I adjure you, sober and truthful spirit, be gone!
  3. Hey, liberals! Let’s get stupid!
  4. It’s amazing what you can do without nine robed demigods standing in the way.
  5. Naming things.
  6. I think that I shall never see…
  7. I’m going where they appreciate my kind.
  8. You don’t have to dig through garbage to find food.
  9. Bigger than any stinkin’ election.

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Tasty Tidbits 7/16/11

Here’s some Tasty Tidbits du jour:

  1. Morality as heresy?!
  2. Sola Potatoes.
  3. The invisible elephant in the room.
  4. There oughta be a(nother) law.
  5. “This is a nation where no lovely thing can last.”
  6. Cat fight coming?
  7. The rehabilitation of Rupert.
  8. Keep your eye on SSRN, and don’t be put off by the homely exterior

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