A wonderful father, husband, and man — and long a friend to pw and to the family of commenters here — Brian Teixeira, passed away today. Best wishes and prayers from my family and the protein wisdom family go out to his family, whom he loved so very dearly and who so very dearly loved him in return. I’ll update with information on funeral, etc., as I find out more.

Because not everybody wants to talk about how Ann Coulter or some other of our big conservative opinion leaders could possibly pretend Mitt Romney is conservative. Eh, screw it. Maybe the feckless and impotent GOP who stood before us in 2008 and told us the era of Reagan is over were right. And maybe the reason is precisely because that’s what they wanted.

A couple interesting comments from “an erstwhile reader,” Rachel, who in an earlier thread expresses her concern over my support for Bachmann and Santorum, the gist being that my site has evolved from a classical liberal venue to one in which I and many of the regulars here are somehow something else these days. She writes in her second comment: Jeff, thanks for the well-reasoned reply. From what I’ve read