Archive for March, 2009
If Geithner Had Any Employees, They’d Be Eyeing His Furniture Right Now.
Moe Lane looks to be starting a Tim Geithner Desk-Cleaning Pool. He’s not offering prizes, but it could be fun to play. Put me down for Friday, March 27th at 3 PM. Here’s my reasoning. The President will announce it over the weekend so it has less of a splash. I would have chosen this [...]
Don’t Blow Ideology Up My Jeans And Tell Me It’s Empiricism
Well, of course this exists. For the past two years, several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics have talked stories and compared notes in an off-the-record online meeting space called JournoList. This goes a long way toward explaining the strange synchronicity of news stories and blog entries and activist involvement [...]
First We Blogged in Pajamas…
Well, would you look at who got himself some Chris Muir cartoon love! It’s not widely known, but a mention in Day by Day is a rare thing, rarer even then a non-Pajamas Media blogger getting a regular Instalanche. Chris Muir packs a lot into those three cartoon panels, but space is very limited. If [...]
If I Were a Handgun…
This is a fun little quiz. I am a: Glock Model 22 in 40 calWhat kind of handgun are YOU? Kathy Shaidle is apparently illegal in her own country.
John Conyers Doesn’t Have to Cheat; He Just Does
I find this extraordinary. This weekend, I spoke on free trade at the Club for Growth’s annual meeting in Palm Beach this weekend. At dinner last night, I heard an amazing story from Steve King, a Republican congressman from Iowa. I was amazed at two levels: (1) the story itself and (2) the fact that [...]
This, Folks, is What Blog-Fu is All About
I know I link my friend Stacy McCain a lot, but there’s a good reason. He’s an outstanding blogger. He has assembled unto himself a group of younglings — S. Logan, Monique Stuart, and Cynthia Yockey — and is teaching them the Rules of Blog-Fu. You can’t argue with the man’s success since all three [...]
Rule 5 Sunday at the Museum
Behold, the museum-quality artistic beauty of Rule 5 Sunday! The link is most likely NSFW, because, these days, naked women are verboten, even if they were painted by Botticelli. But if you’re not at work, feel free to click away. It’s culture!
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