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Maybe not as red as Drudge believes. A reader writes:
And is Putin a red? Hmmm. Perhaps Putin is really a Neocon. The way the words "socialist," "communist" and "Nazi" are thrown around today (interchangeably at that!) show what an utterly debased...
This is pretty staggering news:
Two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Margaret Thatcher told
President Gorbachev that neither Britain nor Western Europe wanted the
reunification of Germany and made clear that she wanted the Soviet leader ...
Charlie Cook and others are predicting a sea-change in public mood, with support for the GOP rising because of deficits. This strikes me as an amazing thing. It makes Charlie Brown, the football and Lucy look like the model of intelligent interaction...
by Patrick Appel
I meant to mark the news yesterday but got distracted by other issues, so late last night I searched through the thousand or so blogs I read to see if I could find anyone making a substantive point about the first day of marriage eq...
Graeme Wood gets caught up in the frenzy:
After and during the Saturday victory, fans set me on fire twice. They
were harmless conflagrations, but they reminded me what a blessing it
is, in so many ways, not to be the type who wears polyester and...
Carl Zimmer reports:
Despite the late appearance of higher mathematics, there
is growing evidence that numbers are not really a recent invention - not
even remotely. Cantlon and others are showing that our species seems to
have an innate skill for...
Heather MacDonald doesn't appreciate how the faithful connect religion to ethics:
Would someone please provide an example of
a. someone actually claiming that murder, say, (or theft) is fine at all times and places, or
b. someone claiming that...
Michael Fitzgerald sorts through a number of studies on the economic effects of religion:
Among the most provocative findings
have come from Robert Barro, a renowned economist at Harvard, and his
wife, Rachel McCleary, a researcher at Harvard’s...
The Daily Dish used to be blog that I would check several times a day, but no more. Andrew Sullivan seems to have taken personal umbrage at McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate, and the blog has devolved into a series of anti-Palin rants... For example on October 3rd there were 47 posts of which 24 were anti-Palin. At least if these were of the sort "this proves McCain's unfitness to be President" (he has a few of these) that would be OK, but they are about how she speaks, looks, everything she says and does, etc. Extremely tiresome.
So, at this point it's a 5.0 Perhaps once the elections are past it will go back to its normal 9.0 level... Here's hoping!
I like how Andrew interacts with his readers - the blog reads more like a big conversation. He often links to interesting stuff. Recently, though, seems like half of his 50ish posts a day are just slobbering over Obama.
