Month: May 2006

"Get out of the hot tub!" Ryan Sager explains.

Scroll down Mickey Kaus’s blog at Slate and you find a HUGE ad for "Brokeback Mountain" fans. Poor Mickey. Every time he looks at his own blog, he has to have a "visceral surface revulsion." Someone somewhere has a sense of humor. Meanwhile, my corporate overlords have signed up a big advertizer for this page. And it’s for a good cause! I feel all growed up with a banner ad. And it moves. Most cool.

That’s what a report from the Independent of London is saying. They’re allegedly targeting the Kurds.

Good news from CNN; not-so-great news from Zogby. Zogby’s sample was almost twice as large.

Radley Balko issues an invigorating response to David Brooks’ recent paean to authoritarian conservatism. The really weird thing about the enthusiasm for big government’s "moral guard-rails" is that the period in which government was kept under control – in the 1990s – every social indicator improved. As Radley reminds us:

Seems to me that technology, relaxed public attitudes, and consumer choice have given Americans more lifestyle freedom over the last 15 years than we‚Äôve ever had before. Yet not only is our national moral fabric not unraveling, it appears to be as durable and fibrous as it’s ever been.
So why exactly do we need more moral guardrails from the government aimed at restricting behavior? …  We handle our liberty just fine, thanks. The vast majority of Americans don’t need government-imposed ‘guardrails.’ Family, friends, churches, and other support networks more than suffice.

This used to be one of the benchmarks of conservatism. Now, it’s a minority view.

"We’re doing a heck of a job," – Karl Rove on immigration border enforcement.

Another excitable blogger seems to be losing it over the immigration issue.

The redirect server just got CPR. We’re going to do all we can to prevent this kind of glitch in the future.

Two brothers, one mother, and a camera. Enjoy.

The redirect server from http://www.andrewsullivan.com is still down. We’re working on it.