Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link): “It’s Judgment Day for McCain” at the Wall Street Journal Thomas Frank writes: “Last week, Republican presidential candidate John McCain called for […]
Pew Research sees different polling results when cell phones are included
My wife’s younger siblings don’t have land lines. Several of my friends don’t have land lines either. Their cell phones are their only phones, and from what I’ve read, this is entirely […]
Letters from Afghanistan: installment #10 (wrap-up)
Final thoughts on three months in Afghanistan by Connor O’Steen I’m sitting on the roof of a hotel in Istanbul, looking at the Hagia Sophia and thinking about my flight tomorrow (and […]
Avast! Tis Talk Like a Pirate Day 2008!
Ahoy, me hearties, it’s been a long seven years since Dave Barry talked up Talk Like a Pirate Day to land lubbers in every port in the land. Today is the day […]
Pro-Life, Pro-Obama: is it possible?
That’s the debate I’ve been having with an old college friend whom I’ve recently reconnected with.He’s become a Catholic since we knew one another back in the ‘80s, and is a deep-thinking, […]
A truth is a truth is a truth, isn't it?
Y’know, these days, so many people with so many different motives are trying to tell me in so many ways what the “truth” is that I wonder whether I’d recognize a “truth” […]
Gingrich's allegedly non-partisan American Solutions funded almost entirely by Republicans
Some of you might recall that back in July, I ran a piece criticizing Newt Gingrich’s “Drill here. Drill now. Pay Less.” campaign. Since then, a number of people have had the […]
Music lyrics, even great ones, are not poetry: Hegemony, part 1
How often have you heard someone call a rock musician or a rapper a poet? As a poet and a lyricist, let me assure you that they’re not the same thing. Reach […]
Nota Bene #39
Links of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link): Paul Begala: “I was for Hillary in the primaries, but when she endorsed Sen. Obama, I proudly sent him a check for […]
Since when are education and eloquence liabilities in a president?
Isn’t it ludicrous even to ask such a question? Apparently not, in the presidential race of 2008. I’ve spent the better part of the last two weeks absorbing and reflecting on the […]
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