Author: James Poulos

By Aug 24,2008

How Will Righties Take Kabuki Joe?

At The Plank, Nate Silver has some numbers: Republicans Candidate Fav-Unfav Kaine 29-30 (-1) Bayh 23-43 (-20) Sebelius 14-45 (-31) Biden 22-63 (-39) Clinton 21-75 (-54) […] Joe Biden will...

By Aug 24,2008

Forth!

The Verve is back. Maybe not better than ever, but still apparently pretty good, and you can’t make Urban Hymns every time, can you? Whatever this new record does, it...

By Aug 24,2008

Culturally Conservative Obama

Julian posts the key Time interview grafs. I’m down, of course, but universal preschool AIN’T CULTURALLY CONSERVATIVE, dood! State-supervised socialization for toddlers? Not for my future aloof, elite offspring. I...

By Aug 20,2008

Tortured Logic

Apropos of the Sonny-Schwenkler Torture Tussle, I’ll mention briefly the following as non inconsistent positions to take on torture and torture-related issues: (1) Torture banned by treaties to which we...

By Aug 20,2008

Dare to be Stupid

I’m sorry, but of the many compelling (or intriguing, or plausible) arguments for why African-Americans should have their own search engine, this is not one of them: […] a black...

By Aug 19,2008

Why Does She Bother?

Anne Applebaum’s latest Slate column on Russia comes with a may-jor caveat: the word superficial is worth repeating here […]. As in, Applebaum concedes that her whole column is strung...