In the post Scott mentioned earlier, Dreher insists that the jarring juxtaposition that occasioned many readers to question his values and priorities, has been the subject of a significant misinterpretation. It's the surprisingness of the "bisexuality is cool" claim that motivated his post, not it's...

I finally found time to read the symposium on Rosenblum's On The Side of The Angels over at Jacob Levy's blog. For the most part, very good stuff, but it's hard not to enjoy criticism of the alleged virtues of non-partisanship in this historical moment when the breathtakingly vacuous and openly rand...

Perhaps Scott will have something to say about this deal from the other side. I've got some mixed feelings about it, but I think it's a small net positive for my Mariners. First and foremost, I'm just thrilled that the our new GM actually understands the team he's running. Gutierrez is, by all accou...

Last week M. LeBlanc at Bitch Phd wrote about the latest battle in the War against the homeless--Chicago cracking down on "continuous riders" just as the cold of winter settles in. Like M. LeBlanc and Bitch PhD, I was surprised and frustrated by the tenor and content of the comments, which went in o...

Is a truism that everyone remembers some of the time, and everyone seems to forget some of the time. Yglesias on cock fighting bans: But should cockfighting really be banned? This doesn't seem like a very nice way to treat animals, I'm skeptical that this is meaningfully worse than the way we treat ...

In 2001, this man was pressured to resign from the new leadership position h'e been appointed to five months sooner. You see, he'd been accused of sexual harrassment by one of his employees. This oversensitive fellow took issue with his boss grabbing his genitals when he was naked in the locker room...

Below, Bean points us to the NRO's campaign spot blog, calling for the release of Obama's birth certificate for some truly strange reasons (more good snark on the logic behind these "controversies" from marvelous Jesse Taylor, fresh off his sabbatical in The Real World). Inexplicably, I've perused N...

Fascinating and Hilarious: A MAGIC trick went "horribly wrong" at a weekend Melbourne Comedy Festival show, but audience members had to sign a confidentiality agreement to stop them revealing details. The trick went awry during the Something About Razorblades and Nails show at the Northcote Town Hal...

In the thread below, commenter Dr. Zen suggests that Obama's apparent level of appeal to self-identified Republicans is a reason to be suspicious of him. This is becoming something a regular theme in case against Obama, followed by a suggestion that his rhetoric about bipartisanship and coming toget...

So in general I like to be involved in controversial comment threads that I start, and I seemed have launched the most controversial one of my erstwhile blogging career earlier this week. Due to travel (Thanks to Scott and Jason and Jay and Claire for their hospitality in NY, DC and Philly, respecti...