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August 5, 2002

Getting Pickled?

Congrats to Vodkapundit Steve Green and his lovely bride Melissa on their recent nuptuals…! And if you’re reading this, Steve — well…then you’re just plain sad. Really. I mean, what are you thinking, dude? This is your honeymoon…! Shameful. I give it a year, tops.

How the right hijacked the magic words…?

Writing for The National Review, novelist Mark Goldblatt asks, “What Is Racism?” — and then he tries to answer his own question by drawing distinctions between rhetoric and reality, and between what he calls “racist truths” and racist beliefs: […] What does it mean nowadays to call someone, or something, ‘racist’? Is racism in the eye of the beholder, or does it have a proper sense? For me, this is

Why “A Campus Left” Matters

A while back, Atrios asked, “Why do so many conservatives always complain about campus leftists?” Not to be outdone, Matt Yglesias echoed that sentiment and added his own plausible deniability of the question’s relevance by way of anecdote and comparison: As a centrist college student, the campus left bothers me a great deal, but that’s because I need to live next door to them. Here on summer vacation, the whole

Checking in

Thanks, everyone, for your kind thoughts and wishes. Posting will remain light for a while — I have some other projects I really should be working on — but never fear…there are plenty of other sites out there better than this one, anyway. For instance, I can think of like, two of them right off the top of my head.