Category: Cool Columnists and Wicked Writers
Capitalism! Huh! Good God, Y’all! What is it Good For?
It is a sad day, I think, when capitalism must be defended from the likes of a snotty NPR reporter whose job is subsidized entirely by the fruits of capitalism. Normally, I’d say such scoffing wouldn’t require more than the cursory “How do you think you got your paycheck, sunshine?”, but I see that Jonah [...]
Moving Day for Stacy!
I’ve been after Stacy McCain, gently, to move from the free blogspot platform he’s been using for his blog to a self-hosted blog with WordPress. He’s insanely gifted, both as a writer and as a raconteur, and I’ve thought that moving off the “training wheels” would open up opportunities that he would find more difficult [...]
Conservative Multimedia Jamboree!
How about some more multimedia goodness from a couple friends of mine? Stephen Green has a new This Week in Blogs and it’s pretty clear that he’s reaching well past blogs into Twitter and YouTube. If you don’t know TWiB, I’ll say it’s like David Letterman’s Top Ten List, but funnier and with less sexual [...]
Fear and Kia in Kentucky
As I write this, Stacy McCain is somewhere west of Fairmont, W.Va., heading toward Clay County, KY to commit acts of journalism related to the apparent murder of Bill Sparkman. He’s probably traveling light — a bottle of Mad Dog and a carton of Winstons in the seat next to him and Steppenwolf blasting from [...]
New Book Alert: Johan Norberg on the Mortgage Crisis
If you have some concern about where the many government bailouts and the massive debt they have created is leading us, these two posts by Stacy McCain should be right up your alley. Even if you’re not terribly concerned, I recommend them to you. Stacy interviewed Johan Norberg, who has written a brand-new book about [...]
Conor Freidersdorf Puts On His Big Boy Pants, Finds Them Not Big Enough.
Conor Freidersdorf is one of the innumerable and pestilential self-important twenty-somethings with degrees from impressive universities who have found gainful employment as pundits at places like the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Atlantic. Unlike writers like Matthew Yglesias, Ezra Klein, and Ross Douthat, Freidersdorf is not what I would call a big-leaguer, lacking [...]
This Would Be A Fitting Tribute, I Think (Updated with Bipartisanship and Collegiality!)
Wow, this is a funny cartoon. Hey, if the MSM can crown him King of All Bipartisans (seriously, that’s the current Ted meme) when in truth he never compromised a single progressive principle, then we can point out how he got to that position. UPDATE: Wow. Meanwhile, listening to ”Reflections on Sen. Kennedy … Lion [...]
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