Yes, Donald Trump is an asshole, as the New York Times reports in its feature article “The Unique U.S. Failure to Control the Virus”, but there’s more to the story than that. Bill de Blasio isn’t so hot either! Near the end of its long “what went wrong” piece/morality tale, the Times acknowledges that the…
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Daniel Drezner, you shall not escape my wrath!
Well, you won’t, Dan. Just because I’m painfully slow and stumbling off the mark, and not much better down the stretch, you thought you could slip a few fast ones by me, but nuh-uh. I’m onto your game, and you’ll pay the price. The first of Dan’s “curve balls” (to vary the metaphor) came a…
The United States Supreme Court is dancing, dancing, dancing. The United States Supreme Court is dancing, dancing on Nino Scalia’s grave.
The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Bostock v. Clayton County can be described as “the war of the textualists” in that both the majority opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch extending federal prohibition of job discrimination to non-hetero folk and the “stinging” (I guess, because I haven’t read them) dissents by Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Samuel…
Lee Sí, Columbus No
Okay, that takes a little unpacking. What I mean is that I support the “de-Confederation” of American monuments (for the most part) but not the removal of statues of that racist tyrant and sometime jailbird, Christopher Columbus. I’ve already defended the remembrance of Chris, several times, despite the numerous brutalities and casual cruelties he heaped…
Safety First! For sure!
The leadership of the New York Times has justly received a full measure of ridicule for bowing to “woke” fears that a meretricious, right-wing opinion piece by meretricious, right-wing Sen. Tom Cotton might somehow endanger the lives of black Times staffers, even though, “arguably”, allowing street violence and looting might threaten their lives as well….
I should grow the hell up, Daniel Drezner? I think maybe YOU should grow the hell up!
Yeah, I got Daniel Drezner—“Obfuscatin’ Dan”, I like to call him—on my mind, on my mind. I got Daniel Drezner on my mind. Again! I just got finished praising ole Obfuscatin’ Dan to the skies in a recent post for his recent post at Reason, “There Is No China Crisis”, calling it “absolute gold”. As…
So should I just die then?
That seems to be the question. Reason’s Jacob Sullum serves up an interesting summary of a recent roundtable discussion at the New York Times magazine, “Restarting America Means People Will Die. So When Do We Do It?”, pointing out that crippling the entire U.S. economy and blighting the lives of tens of millions of young…
Are we having fun yet? Why living at the end of history has become the living end
When I went to first grade, I learned to print my name and hide under my desk in case of a nuclear blast. When I went to the movies, I saw news reels of U.S. above-ground atomic weapons tests in Nevada. (Nobody worried about fallout then.) In 1968, my parents could stand on their front…
Shorter NYT: Bernie sucks!
With the world more or less crashing down around our ears, it’s more than nice of the New York Times to crank out one of those quasi-pissy, sometimes bitchy, behind the scenes political insider reports, “How It All Came Apart for Bernie Sanders”. As I’ve said, well, many times, I really don’t like Bernie Sanders,…
Bernie versus the Media: An Update
Yesterday I wrote a little piece making fun of Ben Smith, the New York Times’ newly installed in-house media critic, for uncritically endorsing Bernie Sanders’ sweeping (and, in my opinion, banal) denunciation of the “capitalist” media. In my brief beatdown of both Ben and Bernie, I neglected to remark that if Ben wanted to point…