The other day, I passed along a particularly offensive post by Michael Goldfarb to Glenn Greenwald. The comment by Goldfarb was disgusting even by his low standards, and I am glad that Glenn took some time to take the Weekly Standard’s OD Original Dungeonmaster to task. What is so disturbing about it is that Goldfarb …
Archives for January 2009
If You Haven’t Done Anything Wrong
You don’t have anything to hide: The Maryland State Police surveillance of advocacy groups was far more extensive than previously acknowledged, with records showing that troopers monitored — and labeled as terrorists — activists devoted to such wide-ranging causes as promoting human rights and establishing bike lanes. Intelligence officers created a voluminous file on Norfolk-based …
The Voting Continues
Voting for Comments of the Year is still active. The entries are: Krista: You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska. And when I look out my window I can see the moon. Doesn’t make me a fucking astronaut now, does it? Michael D.: Ahmmm, I’m a ghey, and I wouldn’t do anything …
A Tough Call
Via memeorandum, this: RESIDENTS of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart. Fairway Oaks was built on northern Florida wasteland by 10,000 volunteers, including Carter, in a record 17-day “blitz” organised by the charity Habitat for Humanity. Eight …
CBS Sunday Morning
Who is this interloper? Where is my man? I don’t like change.
Open Thread
Talk about whatever.
Modernism And Postmodernism
Here is a nutshell reaction to the book I am reading right now. Objectivism (not the Rand kind, but the general principle that we can measure a reality external to us) fails when we mistakenly assume that the fact that an objective reality exists automatically means that we know it. False certainty on subjects like …