Jay Fitzgerald hits the nail right on the head with regards to what’s wrong with conservative journalism today: Here’s a dirty little secret about modern conservativism, as gleaned by yours truly while devouring National Review, American Spectator etc. during my brief hard-core conservative stint in the ’80s: Many conservative pundits and intellectuals have an inferiority… Continue reading

Life on the RoadIt can be tough spending the post holiday in Montreal. Here’s to a Happy 2008.

Book NotesNorman Leavitt deconstructs Steve Fuller.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden reminds us, this Christmas, of how important language is and why it is so much fun to trace its evolution: Luke 2:1-14, Anglo-Saxon (via): Soþlice on þam dagum wæs geworden gebod fram þam casere Augusto, þæt eall ymbehwyrft wære tomearcod. Þeos tomearcodnes wæs æryst geworden fram þam deman Syrige Cirino. And ealle… Continue reading

Best wishes to all this Christmas, 2007.