December 29th, 2004
See, I told you he was really, really smart. Kaus has a pithy post about how Democrats should respond to the charge that they’re stuck defending the status quo. His #3 response is very perceptive, certainly a point worth discussing, and maybe even true.
0 commentsSeason of Giving
December 29th, 2004
Reading Bill Sammon’s article in today’s Washington Times, I found myself agreeing with a major U.N. official’s disdainful comments concerning the United States. Guess there’s a first time for everything.
0 commentsReggie White, RIP
December 28th, 2004
Billy Lyon has the best remembrance of the Eagle great: “Ever the model of compassion, Reggie White would help the dazed man to his feet, dust him off, point him in the direction of his own bench, and say in that rasping voice: ‘Jesus loves you.'”
0 commentsDecember 28th, 2004
Chris Suellentrop notes the bum rap Harry Reid gets from the media, and cites Matt Continetti’s generally favorable profile of him. Can I get a what-what?
Wait–what?
0 commentsDecember 28th, 2004
Ed Driscoll has a list of the top blogging moments of 2004.
0 commentsIn Defense of the American Prospect
December 25th, 2004
Winds of Change reports that the American Prospect is throwing around legal threats at a blogger and anyone who even dares to reprint his “defamatory and false allegations.”
The particulars of this are messy and the blogger in question, one Steve Sailer, doesn’t seem like any angel. Still, is this how media outlets are supposed to act? No.
But of course the Prospect isn’t really a media outlet and the folks who work there aren’t really journalists–they’re political activists. Not that there’s anything wrong with it!
I only point this out by way of suggesting to Winds of Change, Glenn Reynolds, and others, that this action from the Prospect shouldn’t be much of a surprise. (Consider the “journalists” the Prospect employs.) And unlike actual journalists, activists owe no particular devotion to honesty, objectivity, or free speech–except as it suits their interests. They should be free to use legal intimidation however they see fit.
So please, let’s not have any hand-wringing over the American Prospect‘s “crushing of dissent.” They’re not being hypocritical or unseemly or anything else bad. They’re just doing what they do.
0 commentsDecember 25th, 2004
M.E. Russell has a pretty devastating review of Fat Albert. This movie has bounced around in Development Hell for a while, and lost a director or two along the way, so I’m unsurprised that it’s so awful.
0 commentsSanta and NORAD
December 25th, 2004
When Galley Mom AMJCL was little, the Jersey City radio stations used to do alerts on Christmas Eve, telling kids where Santa was and hurrying them into bed. Today we have the NORAD Santa Tracker. It’s probably too late for you to share with your children tonight (unless you’re on the West coast), but even if it is, give this site a look and bookmark it for next year. It’s a classic.
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