A small step toward rationality on the weed.
Month: January 2008
“A Strategy Of Desperation”
Krugman on what Bernanke is doing, via Mankiw.
Gore On Civil Rights
A question I still don’t have a good answer to:
"Shouldn’t we be promoting the kind of faithfulness and loyalty to one’s partner regardless of sexual orientation?"
Family values do not extend to gay people, according to the Republican establishment. Gore differs:
No Excuses Now, Mitt
If Mitt Romney can’t prosper with Thompson out of the race, there are no conditions under which he could win the nomination.
The View From Your Window
Fez, Morocco, 4.30 pm.
Yglesias Award Nominee
"Huck’s very bright, and he could be a quick study if he applied himself to an in-depth study of policy and political theory. But that’s not who he is.
He’s spent his entire adult life as a message shaper — translating ideas into marketable slogans, memorable catch-phrases, and heart-felt passion. He’s very good at what he does, but beyond the surface glitter of his rhetoric, there’s no there there. This is not a man who can (or would want to) discuss the finer details of Kirkean conservatism; even though he is a seminary-trained preacher, he has little patience for, nor interest in, the complexities of theology that underlie Christian social thought. He’s a pragmatist and a technician, not an ideologue or philosopher…
I love the man, but he’s almost as superficial as his enemies paint him to be. His destiny is to be, as Ross says, a motivational speaker or talk-show host. It would be wonderful if he broke out of this mold he’s created for himself, but don’t count on it. That’s just not who he is," – a former Huckabee staffer, disabusing Rod Dreher.
Women and Bill
LGF Bait
Anne Frank in a kaffiyeh?
Loving Tim Gunn
I confess. How great to have an openly gay man on television who’s literate and mature. I wish he hadn’t done his own show, though. He’s best a few inches off-center.
Systematic?
Obama on the Muslim emails:
We have no way of tracing where these e-mails come from, but what I know is they come in waves, and they somehow appear magically wherever the next primary or caucus is, although they’re also being distributed all across the country. But the volume increases as we get closer to particular elections.
That indicates to me that this is something that is being used to try to raise doubts or suspicions about my candidacy.
Best not to get paranoid.
The Dish 