If you haven’t yet done so, go read the excellent piece from Christopher Caldwell in The Weekly Standard, “Liberte, Egalite, Judeophobie”. Part 1 introduces us to the softer side of that famed French McMalcontent, Jose Bove. It seems genetically altered foods aren’t the only things this randy old le Cock mistrusts: France has laws against Holocaust denial. The current climate shows them to be bad laws, not just because they

Reviewing Arundhati Roy’s Power Politics and The Algebra of Infinite Justice for The New Republic, Ian Buruma offers several sharp arrogant, presumptious, and remarkably condescending claptrap, and sure enough, it did change my way of thinking forever. Because no longer (I swore) would I countenance the kind of shoddy logic I find so endemic to the “thinking” of Roy and her ilk — regardless of how such iconoclasty might damage

Reviewing Arundhati Roy’s Power Politics and The Algebra of Infinite Justice for The New Republic, Ian Buruma offers several sharp arrogant, presumptious, and remarkably condescending claptrap, and sure enough, it did change my way of thinking forever. Because no longer (I swore) would I countenance the kind of shoddy logic I find so endemic to the “thinking” of Roy and her ilk — regardless of how such iconoclasty might damage

Writing in The Weekly Standard, David Brooks gives us an instructive

Writing in The Weekly Standard, David Brooks gives us an instructive

Interesting article by Michael Radu, Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and director of its Center on Terrorism and Political Violence (

…So one of my dogs, Dexter, hopped the fence this morning while I was pouring myself a cup of coffee (friggin’ squirrels, always tempting the poor li’l guy with their twitching squirrel tales and their taunting squirrel chirps) — and now I can’t find him. Anywhere. I’ve driven around the neighborhood three times, too. Anyway, I have to go teach in a few minutes, so if any of you reading

…So one of my dogs, Dexter, hopped the fence this morning while I was pouring myself a cup of coffee (friggin’ squirrels, always tempting the poor li’l guy with their twitching squirrel tales and their taunting squirrel chirps) — and now I can’t find him. Anywhere. I’ve driven around the neighborhood three times, too. Anyway, I have to go teach in a few minutes, so if any of you reading

In Maryland, it’s illegal to mistreat oysters. In Denver, it’s illegal to mistreat rats. In Helena, Montana, a woman cannot dance on a saloon table unless her clothing weighs more than three pounds, two ounces. In North Dakota, beer and pretzels cannot be served at the same time in any bar or restaurant, and it’s illegal to go to bed wearing boots or shoes. What crazy laws affect you?

Texas is for Lovers! Kiddie lovers, that is… “The News2Houston Investigators reported Thursday night in an exclusive story that Houston-area students’ personal information is readily available to anyone, even child predators, and can be used to hunt for specific kinds of kids — by their age, race or gender,” Click2Houston reports. The law that allows it is called the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. It requires schools to have