lolcat bible
(tags: humor religion)
The secret that Leo Strauss never revealed
(tags: politics theory strauss)
Everything2 essay on Strauss
(tags: strauss politics theory)
Hersh on the neocon cabal
(tags: politics strauss neocon policestate)
Interview: Paul Nitze
(tags: politics neocon)
Cops participate in arrest, vehicle impound, and other contests
One recent competition, described in an internal Sheriff’s Department e-mail obtained by The Times, was called “Operation […]
Is The Net Good For Writers?
(tags: writing net)
Immanuel Wallerstein’s column
(tags: politics global economics)
Progressives as the Health Care Swing Block
(tags: politics healthcare 2008 hillary edwards)
Christopher Hitchens: A death in the family
(tags: iraq politics war)
Estimates of deaths in first war still in dispute
(tags: war iraq global politics)
Gulf War Facts
(tags: iraq war global politics)
Bill Clinton, Aggressor
(tags: war politics global)
ABC News interview with Richardson
(tags: 2008 richardson politics,)
“We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don’t see is that freedom is not a […]
One of the arguments I frequently hear when debating whether Democrats are actually any better than Republicans, or whether Bush is really in worse than Clinton, is that Clinton waged many wars of his own. I decided to do a little digging to find out whose wars were most fatal, and based on what I’ve […]
Hillary’s top adviser reps union busters, subprime lenders, and Blackwater
(tags: politics 2008 hillary)
Cartoonizing Photos With The GIMP
(tags: art comics ubuntu gimp)
Democrats rally to defend electoral college system
(tags: politics 2008,)
Hillary is polling better than all the leading Republicans in Florida.
Dobson: Christian right will support 3rd party candidate if GOP candidate is unsatisfactory.
27% of Republicans Would Vote for Pro-Life Third Party Instead of Giuliani.
Public seems comfortable with a Hillary presidency.
Radley Balko: questions for the candidates
(tags: politics 2008,)
Who’s Ahead in Global Manufacturing Exports?
(tags: economics business global)
Biotech Surge Shows Manufacturing Still Key to U.S. Economy
(tags: business economics global)
The United States makes more manufactured goods today than at any time in history, as measured by the dollar value of production adjusted for inflation — three times as much as in the mid-1950s, the supposed heyday of American industry. Between 1977 and 2005, the value of American manufacturing swelled from $1.3 trillion to an […]
It may surprise some readers of this blog to learn that I’ve actually been considering registering as a Republican so I can vote for Ron Paul in the primary. I’m not a Ron Paul supporter at all, as I’ve detailed here exhaustively in the past, but I’m still happy to see him shaking up the […]