- Circumspect on circumcision.
- Nobody loves a loser.
- Role models.
- Social Democrats for Ron Paul.
- “America’s Taliban.”
- Knickers in a knot over a pigment of the imagination.
Category: Empire
Tasty Tidbits, 7/29/11
- Not dorky, but banal.
- No honest line of argument?
- Bad, bad, bad! That’s why!
- The new economy.
- Rick Perry follows the script.
- Quaker, Calvary Chapel, Vineyard, Calvary Chapel, Orthodox.
- Anniversaries.
- Simulating a good time.
Tasty Tidbits 7/25/11
- Orthodoxy in a nutshell.
- More time for Malia and Sasha.
- Did Rick Perry flub federalism?
- Gotham SSM, Day 2.
- Douthat on the Norwegian Bomber.
- Old is Green.
- The threat of the West.
Tasty Tidbits 7/16/11
Here’s some Tasty Tidbits du jour:
- Morality as heresy?!
- Sola Potatoes.
- The invisible elephant in the room.
- There oughta be a(nother) law.
- “This is a nation where no lovely thing can last.”
- Cat fight coming?
- The rehabilitation of Rupert.
- Keep your eye on SSRN, and don’t be put off by the homely exterior
Tasty Tidbits 6/29/11
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Tasty Tidbits 6/28/11
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Sen. Lugar reportedly will unload on Obama today regarding Libya. Good for him! But the Hoosier blogosphere will be all atwitter with navel-gazing about how this is a “move to the right” to fight off challenger Richard Mourdock.
Babel redux
I have sometimes imagined myself as a sort of political ballast. When the country seemed to be listing leftward, I made conservative noises. When Zombies went on interminably about how the words “wall of separation” appear nowhere in the Constitution, and how American was and is a Christian nation, I pushed back. Enough already! I know about the Danbury Baptists, but I also know what the Constitution does say.
Maybe I’m just contrary. Continue reading “Babel redux”
Joe Sobran on War
As I rummaged through my trove of Joe Sobran clippings, I found a lot of gems unrelated to the privacy motif I’ve already discussed. Especially notable is his stance on our middle-eastern policy, in the face of the insults of those who could not refute him.
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Blasts from Left and Right
Pat Buchanan writes a well-earned “we told you so” regarding our invasion of Iraq, including allegations of something worse than mistake: “We were misled. We were deceived. We were lied to.” Continue reading “Blasts from Left and Right”
Another blog recommendation
Mirror of Justice is “A blog dedicated to the development of Catholic legal theory.” I apparently discovered it relatively late in the game, as it already is the second “stickiest” blog, trailing only the Volokh Conspiracy site (another law-oriented site). In other words, MOJ readers spend lots of time engaging what they read there.
This isn’t arcane stuff you need to be a lawyer to appreciate, although being a lawyer probably deepens the appreciation — or the opposition.
It’s sometimes philosophical (are there absolutes? more than one?), sometimes Front Porchy (are the suburbs bad?), sometimes surprisingly eclectic (does belief in interreligious unity reek of colonialism and empire?), and increasingly, one of my favorites.
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 