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Archive for February 21st, 2007

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

The Knowledge Problem, the Continuing Story

In a hole, Frank Gaffney keeps digging. I have basically two things to say:
1) Gaffney will help you understand why many libertarians despise Abraham Lincoln.
2) Gaffney could not be more wrong when he argues that ‘there clearly is a distinction to be drawn between constructive disagreement about the conflict in Iraq and giving aid and [...]

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

“To focus on the air in the balls, or lack thereof, undermines the American spirit of generosity and completely misses the point of giving.”

Another own-goal in the war on terror.
Via Crash Landing.

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Gift Survives All

WH Auden is a hundred today.

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Big Eyes, Small Army

Personally, I’d have gone with a mecha theme, because nobody doesn’t like giant robots.
Via Making Light.

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Medved Needs an Emesis Basin – Stat!

By Mona
Hugh Hewit’s favorite film critic and Town Hall columnist Michael Medved, is terribly worried that teh gheys are interested in his package, and it, like, gags him with a spoon:

Many gay activists suggest that this near-universal straight male repulsion at the idea of sex with another man is merely the product of [...]

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Cool Kids Never Have the Time

Of course, the Iranian Glenn Reynolds would say that “The United States has been at war with us since 1953,” and probably did back in, oh, 1979 or so. That would of course be “moral equivalence,” which is the sin of holding the United States to any standard a nationalist finds inconvenient. Enjoyable as they [...]