by John Harvin Last night we had dinner with my daughter’s future in-laws. They are devout Christians, members of an ultra-conservative evangelical mega-church. As we sat down to eat, they asked if […]
Nota Bene #47
Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link): John Heileman, New York magazine, The Next New Deal: “Personally, I think the depth of the Obama realignment is being underestimated,” says […]
Nota Bene #35

Scholars & Rogues’ world-famous hot links! In, “Dear World, Please Confront America,” Naomi Wolf writes: “I had thought that after so much exposure [to revelations about US torture], thousands of Americans would […]
What to do — blow myself up or study engineering at Caltech?

Sometimes the answer to a problem isn’t as hard as we think it is. In fact, it may be downright easy. But something in our makeup prevents us from either seeing or […]
Nota Bene #33
Got hot links if you want ’em! Jonathan Martin of Politico writes: “Liberal media has traditionally been upstream media, generating information and putting it into circulation. Conservative media is downstream, it’s the […]
Nota Bene #29 Part 2 of 2

In “Is Lara Logan being smeared for her criticism of Iraq war coverage,” at Attytood, Will Bunch wonders why the love life — old news — of CBS’s chief foreign affairs correspondent […]
Nota Bene #29 Part 1 of 2

Got hot links if you want ’em! In a post titled “Why Johnny Can’t Google,” Rafe Colbun blogs about John McCain’s indifference to computers: “It’s tempting to. . . assume that. . […]
World's nicest man

How do we welcome him into the US? Why, detain him and confiscate his passport, of course. What else do you do with a Muslim, even if he is a Nobel Peace […]