Brains, Reluctantly

Hillary Forth speaks Truth!

"We gave up on ever finding an audience a long time ago. Boy, did that free us up creatively!"

A sweet tale of man-on-man love among Catholic priests

( The last laugh of Cardinal John Newman. )

"What if I'm running on corrupt hardware?"

( Human beings have evolved in such fashion as to think that they are doing X for prosocial reason Y, but when human beings actually do X, other adaptations execute to promote self-benefiting consequence Z. )

A Buckley at National Review no more.

( “I haven't left the Republican Party. The Republican Party left me.” )

John McCain brags about accepting money from people who fund a terrorist!

( No, really. )

NY Times "Checkpoint" covers Obama and ACORN

( But not McCain's relationship to ACORN. Hmmm )

Frank Gaffney says goodby to polite society with an attack on Obama

( David Weigel disassembles this paranoid conspiracy )

David Horsey lampoons the conspiracy theorists.

Oh, just click on it. It's a political cartoon. A good'un.

The Hitch endorses Obama!

Christopher Hitchens: "The most insulting thing that a politician can do is to compel you to ask yourself: 'What does he take me for?' Precisely this question is provoked by the selection of Gov. Sarah Palin."

Sarah Palin says she's got nothing to lose.

( The mainstream media wants to shut me up! )

McCain: "If I bring up Ayers at the debate, it'll be Obama's fault!"

( Say it to his face, John! )

Brains, Getting To Know You...

Learning to Cook

( Three things schools ought to be teaching. )

Jim Manzi explains the credit problem in caveman terms

( And despite being a National Review stooge, it's pretty good. )

The Neocons vs. the Realists

( Realists win! )

Rachel Maddow dissects David Frum. A lesson to all.

( Don't mess with Rachel. )