Why Pat Buchanan is a hypocrite: “… it’s telling that it was the Republican Party of this President Bush that passed and just had signed into law the first national restriction on abortion since Roe v. Wade. While it was Mr. Buchanan who, with his eye on $13 million in matching government funds, jumped to… Continue reading

Yes, he can go on and on sometimes, probably because deep down he’s a true geek, but often what Steven Den Beste writes is just the best damned thing out there: “Over the last few months the US has been colder towards the Sauds. We haven’t demanded that they step down, but we’re asking for… Continue reading

When Stephen Glass was fired from the New Republic for fabricating stories out of whole cloth, I remember thinking what I—and many other starving writers—would’ve done to have had his job, to have had a start at such a prestigious magazine. Reading this just reaffirms why I think the little dirtbag deserves to be pistol-whipped.

If you’re having second thoughts about your job, remember, things could always be worse. You could be a scientist….

Jim Lileks is superb in his review of the final (thank God) Matrix movie: “I took away something else from the Matrix trilogy: it is a product of deeply confused people. They want it all. They want individualism and community; they want secularism and transcendence; they want the purity of committed love and the licentious… Continue reading