Monarchist Values

Sadly, No! throws an offhanded dig at Mark Noonan’s descrip­tion of the “Kingdom of God” as a state of exis­tence. While Noonan even­tu­ally does come out in favor of democ­racy, you’ll note that it’s only because you can’t guar­an­tee you’ll get a com­pe­tent and benev­o­lent dic­ta­tor (one who only oppresses The Other) not because the …

No Santa

I started writ­ing this post to point out that the coör­di­nated demands by vir­tu­ally every major nut­case over the New York Times’ reveal­ing the data-mining of bank­ing records via SWIFT — the calls for exe­cu­tion, harass­ment, lynch­ing, etc. — was a clear indi­ca­tion that Karl Rove is no longer a tar­get of Fitzgerald’s inves­ti­ga­tion. The much-vaunted “Fitzmas” is over, …

Changing Gears

I’m done blog­ging par­tic­u­larly on pol­i­tics. I’m done because (essen­tially) all polit­i­cal blogs are turn­ing into the minor leagues of pun­ditry, let­ting pro­pa­gan­dists hone their craft before being wran­gled, branded, and paid to use those same skills as the future Priesthoods of Power. This is not a con­test between the two par­ties, this is simply …

Feel The Power

So accord­ing to the peo­ple at Protein Wisdom, the rea­son the U.S. is los­ing the war in Iraq (iron­i­cally enough the same peo­ple said the U.S. was win­ning until a fel­low con­ser­v­a­tive clued them in to the fact it wasn’t) is the anti-war pro­test­ers. Aside from the obvi­ous “stab-in-the-back” par­al­lels, there’s a more con­struc­tive interpretation …