Clearly, Andrew Sullivan isn’t much of an intentionalist*: Glenn Reynolds finds a photo in the White House Flickr basket and publishes it to, er, point out how bad the White House’s p.r. is, or how blind they are to perceptions of Obama or some such thing. I tried to puzzle this one out and can just about see how an elusive photo of a tired Obama reacting to something unknowable
January 4, 2010
Money Grub
[for some reason, I can’t get the original post to update and publish, so I’m reproducing the post here] Well, I’ve updated to the newest version of WP in anticipation of the move to a tiered subscription site (with one tier being entirely free). Looks like I’ll have it set up in the next few weeks. So it’s looking like either February or March before the new model goes into
January 2, 2010
“Sexual Misconduct” and its discontents: A brief gloss…
…on Darleen’s post noting Duke’s revised sexual misconduct policy, which — as is generally the case with progressive ventures — newly “defines” sexual misconduct by way of what an interpreter can do with a set of signifiers (in essence, eschewing the more difficult work of sussing intent for the simpler work of coddling personalized outrage, whether real or imagined, and regardless of who is doing the imagining) . Most of
January 1, 2010
Happy New Year!
I’m going to spend today getting myself some new cross trainers. Because at my age, the knees are the first thing to go. — Well — now that we have access to those little blue pills, I mean. For those interested, Paladin Press has put up a interview with my fight coach, Tony Cecchine, who gives a brief history of American catch wrestling, explains how it differs from other martial
December 23, 2009
Record setting [updated; and updated again, now with more HYPOCRISY] [Jeff G.]
Frey: I point out that my words were altered, not to revive or continue a fight, but simply because it’s true, and I want that fact to be part of the record here. I’m just going to reiterate for the record, legal or otherwise, that the text of Frey’s comments was never altered. Ever. All those posts I detailed are his; all the language in those posts is his; all
December 16, 2009
PROMINENT RESPONSE ALERT! (Or, “Is Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Patrick Frey anti-semitic? We really can’t say. Nor does that have anything to do with this post. But we just thought we’d throw it out there,” part 3) [updated] [Jeff G.]
Patrick Frey demanded (no, seriously) that I “prominently” reply to one of his many, many, many, many Jeff Goldstein posts of the last several days. Why this is important to him I don’t really know, given that the subject matter (David Letterman’s Palin family jokes) is months old, and I participated in a nearly 630-post comment thread at the time, arguing my position from every conceivable angle, answering every question,
December 16, 2009
Is Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Patrick Frey anti-semitic? Part 2 [Jeff G.]
In part one of our series, “Is Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Patrick Frey anti-semitic,” we very pointedly refused to reach a conclusion: perhaps he is, perhaps he isn’t. Frankly, it’s hard to tell, because no one is quite sure just how many anti-semitic statements (if indeed that’s what we’re looking at) are needed in the aggregate before we can conclude that we have on our hands is a
December 16, 2009
Is Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Patrick Frey anti-semitic? [Jeff G.]
As many of you know, on at least two occasions, Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Patrick Frey has made statements that more than a few people have suggested are redolent with the stink of anti-semitism. Generally, when I interpret such statements, I appeal to the writer’s intent: was the statement signified in such a way that the anti-semitism belongs to its author, or am I merely imagining anti-semitism in
November 30, 2009
The state of our little online community: your input requested
Out of economic necessity / desperation, I’m thinking about taking protein wisdom to the subscription model. In order to sustain the site (and myself, should I entertain returning here with regular content), I need to raise a minimum of $600 monthly. The problem is, the only people willing to pay for website subscriptions are the die hard regulars, and having been away for so long, I haven’t the foggiest idea
November 30, 2009
On SEK's latest "racism" charges [updated, to respond to what amounts to one of the most transparently asinine counter arguments ever levied in the history of counter argument levying; then, updated again to account for all manner of things — not the least of which is my opaque suggestion that Mr. Kaufman should never, ever get in front of a video camera]
A brief gloss on Darleen’s post, below: Charges of racism are a serious thing. Kaufman uses them to silence critics and shame people into supporting egregious public policy that does nothing more than perpetuate the very racism he claims to abhor — with people like him overseeing the efforts like British noblemen overseeing their Wogs. He’s a selfish opportunist, and worse, he has exchanged the very real and serious charge