The Cult of American Revolution
A few nights ago I crawled into bed and watched Warren Beatty’s Reds. The film came out when I was about fourteen years old, and though it was well received (three Oscars), it faded away rather...
View ArticleYou Didn’t Build That or Pick Your Color
Presidential campaigns do have their moments of levity. Consider the recent “gaffes” by the Obama/Biden team. Obama does his second hand version of Elizabeth Warren’s argument that no one makes it in...
View ArticleForcible Legitimate Life
A good friend of mine has been in a committed gay relationship for almost 16 years. I called to catch up a while back and he told me he and his partner were trying to adopt. My reaction was “Why?” We...
View Article2nd Amendment Remedies
Aug. 27th 2012 02:30 PM Just saw this headline. Back during the primaries in 2008 I went for Obama, my wife was for Hillary. I still had a bad taste in my mouth from the end of the Clinton years, and...
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Haters will Hate
Here’s a couple of comments I came across in my efforts to remain informed from all sides: How do you pronounce that? Rullie? Rhymes with gully? Another brilliant comment: The topic that they were...
View ArticleRepublicans are People Too!
I enjoyed the Republican convention. And last night’s appearance by Clint Eastwood did nothing to diminish my admiration for him as an artist. In fact, that was probably one of the most interesting...
View Articlein which Abonilox attempts to live blog for the first time
8:02 pm It’s an interesting system we have, this duopolistic plutocracy. I’m doing fine and if I wasn’t such a negative person, if I could really trust in hope, I could really get into this whole...
View ArticleMy New Favorite “Mainstream” Website
Don’t let the name of the site fool you, or the fact that it was founded by Pat Buchanan, The American Conservative has some really, really good writing. Maybe you all already know this. I think I got...
View ArticleJust give us a deadline
To the 53% (which I guess includes myself since I paid lots and lots of income tax last year): Give us a timeline when you’re gonna wean us from your engorged teat. How about ten years? Will that give...
View ArticleIt’s Over
I made a special effort to get home in time to watch the Presidential debate last night. Expectations being high for Obama (oddly, since he wasn’t that good in his debates last time around), I planned...
View ArticleDrones & Stop & Frisk
It’s great that there are so many critics of remote assassinations and racist police tactics. I appreciate that there are civil libertarians out there still to bring this up daily (to no effect, of...
View ArticleThey’re Missing the Point
I was a bit late reading Ron Unz’s Our American Pravda over at TAC, but got to it this morning. Unz’s thesis won’t be shocking or even all that interesting to this backwater of the internet, but I was...
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