Jonah Goldberg, on “Liberals and Eugenics”: When reading the literature on the subjects of eugenics and race, one commonly finds academics blaming eugenics on “conservative” tendencies within the scientific, economic, or larger progressive communities. Why? Because according to liberals, racism is objectively conservative. Anti-Semitism is conservative. Hostility to the poor (that is, social Darwinism) is conservative. Therefore, whenever a liberal is racist or fond of eugenics, he is magically transformed
March 29, 2010
March 29, 2010
protein wisdom’s “proof that angry middle-aged ‘conservative’ men can still be, like, totally cool” post (#1 in a series)
Have I mentioned I have a pair of Macs? Because I do. Plus, for tea? Vanilla Chai. Which, if they ever figure out a way to package that shit in recycled tea bags, count me in!
March 29, 2010
“Obama’s Health Care Promises Reach Their Expiration Date Early”?
NRO’s Campaign Spot: Two revealing comments from Aetna CEO Ron Williams in an interview with BusinessWeek out now: Will insurance premiums go up? The answer is yes, and some of the things that will drive those premiums are significant additional taxes the industry will ultimately have to pay in the first year. The President said that this bill would not have any impact on people who already had coverage, that
March 29, 2010
Provocateurism, 9
In an earlier thread — under a post made famous by its violence toward women and its Steve McQueen fantasies — Nishi asks rhetorically, “where are the conservative professors, filmmakers, comics, scientists, actors, artists?” Her point being that a (perceived or actual) dearth of prominent conservatives in those fields equates to a population among conservatives of those who can cultivate neither the requisite intellect or social sensibilities to join those