I’ve added a few new links to the blogroll, and removed a couple of others (mostly in cases where there has been no activity for several months or more; I will happily re-link should they become active again). In these days of RSS feeds, I’m not entirely sure what the proper function of a blogroll [...]
Archive for September 5th, 2008
Housekeeping
Posted in Admin on September 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What the–?
Posted in John McCain, Politics on September 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Is this for real? Good golly.
Myths we live by
Posted in Economy, Environment, Politics on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There’s been a lot of loose talk from both parties about “energy independence,” so I thought it’d be worth linking to this piece from Paul “The End of Oil” Roberts that appeared in Mother Jones a couple of months back: The Seven Myths of Energy Independence.
The gender card
Posted in Humor, Politics on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Awesome. (Via Jeremy)
Bacevich on “Democracy Now!”
Posted in Conservatism, Messianic delusions, Politics, War & Peace on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Starts at about 33 minutes into this stream (thanks, Elliot!).
To the extent that I still think of myself as a conservative, it’s in the Bacevich-Reinhold Niebuhr mold. Bacevich gets at what I take to be the heart of this conservatism in the interview: it’s the recognition that world exists prior to us and doesn’t conform [...]
Irony and hunting
Posted in Animal Rights and Issues, Conservatism, Politics, Vegetarianism/veganism on September 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Turns out that Sarah Palin’s RNC speech was written by former Bush speechwriter Matthew Scully, who also happens to be the author of Dominion, a conservative polemic on behalf of animal rights. (An excerpt from Scully’s book that appeared in the American Conservative several years back actually helped set me on the path to vegetarianism.):
The [...]
