Unqualified Offerings

By BruceB
I was talking with a good friend about something non-political when we slide into the general matter of handling frustration. My friend commented that it’s often difficult to tell when I’m most angry, because I go all calm and either try to interpret my anger as analytically as I can, or flee the problem [...]

Is there a more ridiculous phrase in the American political lexicon than “energy independence?” I don’t think so. Thus it features prominently in Rudy Giuliani’s “12 Commitments with a Cameo by Wilson Pickett.” But the concept is too stupid for Rudy to hog for himself. Hillary Clinton has plans for “promoting” it. Fred Thompson “talks [...]

By Thoreau
I’m devoting my evenings to a new project.  Which means that I’ll probably blog fewer items for the next couple months.  Then I’ll be moving, which will also mean less blogging.  But for now, I’m working on my new project.
What’s my new project?  Well, it’s really an old project.  There’s a math problem that [...]

It’s important not to overcomplicate.
As a rule of thumb, neoconservatives and “liberal hawks” fall prey to every pathology the academic left’s critics ever ascribed to it. In particular, the neos and lib hawks succumb to the politics of gesture. Lieberman, for instance, was never just concerned with morality (to the extent you want to credit [...]

by BruceB
I’m in the process of copying my music collection over onto a new computer (the MacBook has the nicest compact keyboard I’ve ever used, by the way), and as I reflected on what I’d tagged as either progressive or soundtrack, it occurred to me that forgotten cinema offers a way out of a false [...]

By Mona
Gay activist Michelangelo Signorile posts about an outing of one Tyler Whitney that leads me to wonder why a gay man would support the presidential bid of a Republican – Tom Tancredo — who openly despises homosexuals? Whitney has been the Tancredo campaign’s webmaster. Ok, maybe he just really hates immigrants and groks [...]

By Thoreau
I generally link to them for humor with a bit of insight mixed in, but in this case I honestly think that The Onion hits the nail on the head. In reference to Joe Lieberman’s suggestion that we should bomb Iran, one of their “man on the street” interviewees says:
“Wow, my uneducated 12-year-old [...]