By • May 22,2008

Dear God…(Updated)

…If I ever write a piece of navel-gazing dreck this insipid please remove my hands from my arms as punishment so I may never write again. This piece is the...

By • May 22,2008

I'll Second that Yikes

Over at Contentions, Jennifer Rubin breaks down just how many different groups Weekly Standard contributor Sen. Jim Webb managed to offend yesterday: “We shouldn’t be surprised at the way they...

By • May 22,2008

Everybody Loves Che

Having not seen Steven Soderbergh’s new Commie-lovefest, Che, I don’t feel particularly comfortable talking about it. But I will second Dirty Harry’s annoyance at the fact that liberal reviewers feel...

By • May 22,2008

Gay Baiting? Or Straight Up Fun?

This ad has been making the rounds and attracting a certain amount of Democratic ire — purportedly for, as Matt puts it, “mainlining homophobia”: Outstandingly, Matt persists in his excellent...

By • May 22,2008

Blurring the Battlefield

A while ago I went back and forth with John Schwenkler on torture. Our positions are pretty close together, but an element of the ‘torture problem’ we seem to be...