Yuval Levin was a staff manager of the Bush-era “President’s Council on Bioethics”, a body widely derided for its almost comically right-wing leanings and gross intellectual malfeasance. Today he steps in it trying to say something all clever and sophisticated about the new authori...

Martin Kramer is a “fellow” of the usual assortment of right-wing full-employment societies (Olin Institute, etc.). He suffers from a textbook case of Conservative Reading Comprehension Disorder. Right now he’s all het up because he’s got the goods on “Chas Freeman̶...

The “homeless cellphone” story (see next post) keeps growing. The Chicago Tribune online site had the first story (from pool reporters’ notes), but the Washington Post has its own version that almost glows with the warmth of simple, truly simple, decency - the basic and fundamental...

Apparently, disposable cellphones are the new color TVs. K-Lo, and a lot of other people, are all worked up over the fact that one of the guys in line at a soup kitchen where Michelle Obama was volunteering the other day was shown in news photos holding a cellphone. Where Do You Send the Bill? Ameri...

I dunno . . . I think Nia-Malika Henderson, a black reporter at Politico, is reaching too far with her claim that Obama is speaking “dog-whistle code” to blacks by using contemporary slang expressions. I think she has a much too uncritical take on the issue, and both unfairly tars Obama ...

Somebody at the Department of Labor just re-posted this original report from 1965. It is heart-wrenching in how closely its high-level observations (aside from particulars of detail that have changed in 40 years) remain true, and to what degree the “savage and brutal effort” of so many p...

I keep wondering what the deal is with Megan McArdle. A more or less self-taught libertarian economics blogger who turned that into some big-league writing gigs, she shows much more facility with the technical aspects of the issues she discusses than most bloggers, which still leaves a lot of room f...

Here’s a twist that doesn’t at all surprise me, but that I have to admit I hadn’t considered before: jurors are apparently Googling information about high-profile defendants in criminal cases, during the trial, in defiance of instructions to avoid press coverage. This guy has some ...

“It’s hard to believe only half the people are dumber than average.” Attributed to “Ron Thomason” by commenter at TAPPED. No source found. Too bad - instant classic....

OK - so I’ve just stumbled across this “ex-gay” clown I hadn’t head of before: Michael Glatze. Apparently he was a medium-size fish in gay media - co-founded a successful gay-oriented magazine, made an award-winning documentary - starting around the late 90s, until “...