Blog? What blog? Seriously. Who are you people, and what are you doing on my couch, eating my bagel chips?

Just got the email. My short stint with AFF’s Brainwash is over. I can’t prove it to be the case, but I suspect my history of controversy and potty mouthedness had something to do with it. Not that I blame them. After all, not everybody has to be happy having their serious online political mag tied to a dude who once interviewed Jeff Gannon’s junk. Thankfully, you all still love

From The WSJ, “Verizon Wireless Bars Abortion-Rights Group’s Texting”: Verizon Wireless is refusing to carry text messages from a prominent abortion-rights group, citing its internal restrictions on content that is “highly controversial,” the carrier said. Naral Pro-Choice America requested that Verizon Wireless and other carriers distribute its text messages that users sign up for by sending a message to a five- or six-digit number called a “short code.” The program

And though it’s quite possible that an actual open thread could look exactly like this one — down to the last bit of punctuation, even — that wouldn’t change this post’s ontology one bit. All of which puts me in mind of Jeremy Irons and David Cronenberg. And intentionalism. Discuss. — Or if the topic doesn’t interest you, discuss something else. I’m easy that way, and besides, I have a

Knock knock. Who’s there? Juan Williams. Heh. Come on in, Mr Rove. You old kidder, you!*

Evidently, excluding the unethical from a conference on ethics would be a form of intolerance — a hate crime committed by the kinds of regressive, patriarchal Enlightenment thinkers who arrogantly presume to define what constitutes “ethics” in the first place. After all, one man’s convicted and disbarred terror enabler is another man’s “prominent” expert “in the field of ethics.” Up is down. Black is white. Quizno’s ain’t toasting jack. Don’t

Nuance.* Makes me wonder what was on the menu. Besides chicken, crow, and Ahmandinejad ass, I mean.

From Investor’s Business Daily: […] George Soros is known for funding groups such as MoveOn.org that seek to manipulate public opinion. So why is the billionaire’s backing of what he believes in problematic? In a word: transparency. How many people, for instance, know that James Hansen, a man billed as a lonely “NASA whistleblower” standing up to the mighty U.S. government, was really funded by Soros’ Open Society Institute, which

Your tax dollars (not) at work. From the WaPo: The White House reached out to National Public Radio over the weekend, offering analyst Juan Williams a presidential interview to mark yesterday’s 50th anniversary of school desegregation in Little Rock. But NPR turned down the interview, and Williams’s talk with Bush wound up in a very different media venue: Fox News. Williams said yesterday he was “stunned” by NPR’s decision. “It