Reynolds: […] I don’t think that America is in danger of being taken over by religious Zealots, constituting an American Taliban and bent on establishing theocracy. I think that […] the people that Mickey Kaus is calling “pro-tubists” are well-meaning, sincere, and possessed of an earnest desire to do good. I don’t think that they’re nascent Mullah Omars, and I think that calling them that just makes the problem worse.

1.  Thanks so much to John Beck for the Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia DVD.  This is one of my absolute favorite Peckinpah flicks, and if you haven’t yet seen it you’re really missing out.* 2.  My wife is readying the site for migration over to our new host.  Don’t know if we’ll be moving this weekend or next, but either way, posting here is likely to be

“This so-called ‘investigation’ into my heritage and scholarship is nothing but a transparent broadside against my character—payback by the white academic establishment for my having spent years stripping the hides off America’s convenient narratives to lay bare the stark colonialist skeletons underneath.  I am who my grandmother said I was, and no sham committee’s ‘findings’ can change that.”* “I hear you, brother.  When I was a kid, my grandmother told