I am getting a lot of flak from the right and praise from the left for this statement: In fact, many in the media are downright flagwavers and damned patriotic, and in the case of some, outright jingoists. I have no problem attacking, by name, slimeballs (again, Eason Jordan and Ted Rall come to mind), …
More on Intelligent Design
Via Richard Bennett, this excellent essay on what ‘Intelligent Design’ really is: Their premise seems to be that as long as they don’t explicitly name the “designer”–as long as they allow that the “designer” could be a naturally existing being, a being accessible to scientific study–that this somehow saves their viewpoint from the charge of …
Defense of Thomas
Apparently affirmative action beneficiary/Uncle Tom/bigoted conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas isn’t as dumb as the bile on the left assert that he is- at least that is how the New Republic’s Jeffrey Rosen sees it: Next to the hyperbole of Kennedy and Scalia, the most convincing opinions in Lawrence were the most modest. In …