May 31,2008
Gerson's Straw Men
We all know that Michael Gerson’s theoretical compassion cashes out in practice as a seemingly neverending string of tendentious and condescending attacks on mean old Republicans. But who, exactly, are...
May 30,2008
Elitehood, Improvisation, and The Meaning of Conservatism
Ross has blogged some essential remarks on the meaning of conservatism that bear much further comment. Mark Schmitt implicates Ross in an alleged school of thought that has given up...
May 30,2008
The turning tide
I asked for more on Al Qaeda in Iraq being on the run, and Pete Wehner delivers over at Contentions, highlighting a WaPo interview with CIA director Michael Hayden. He...
May 30,2008
Slate: Kind of awesome (Updated with more awesomeness!)
Slate is all kinds of awesome today. Darren Rovell has a piece up about Ken Griffey Jr.’s 1989 Upper Deck rookie card, and what its continued popularity suggests. Anyone who...
May 30,2008
The Strangers
So I reviewed the new Liv Tyler/Scott Speedman horror flick The Strangers this week. I think I might have gotten a little ambitious with my thesis, so instead of quoting...